Life goes on: Katelynn's First Day of Kindergarten

Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Katelynn's First Day of Kindergarten

Good morning Sunshine!
It's your first day of school!

The time has come to send my first baby off into the world of school, at least for the next 12 years. Dan and I couldn't be prouder of her. She was so ready to start school this year. We went through outfits the night before and even though she had a bunch of new school clothes it was still so hot outside that she went for a new shirt she picked out and skirt that I picked out. She was up and ready to go in the morning. I took a couple of hours off of work that day so I could take her to school and pick her up on her first day. We wanted to make it special for her and for it to be her day so we took Junior to daycare. She did so good. I think the funniest part of the morning was when I sent her upstairs to brush her teeth and since she had time she could make her bed and then come back down so I could do her hair, her response, "This is just like every other morning!" She was not happy about that! She ate her breakfast and we took a bunch of pictures. Then it was off to school. We were one of the first ones at the playground that morning and Dan and I watched her run around to all the equipment on the playground. Dan was worse than I was chasing her all over and telling her to be careful and maybe she should just come over and wait by the door. I finally told him to stop it because she was going to be here everyday playing and she would figure it out. She saw a few friend she knew from her preschool class and another friend that lives in our neighborhood. They all lined up at the door and we watched them go in. I wasn't nervous until that moment when I had to leave her there. Dan and I headed home. Just when I pulled into the driveway and was about to go and log in for work I got a text from the daycare that Junior had just thrown up in her car. So off I went to go pick him up. Good thing I was already in town. Junior and I hung out for the morning and then went and picked Katelynn up from her first day of school. She had a lot of fun. We did have a little daycare issue after the first week. The school doesn't have a drop off and pick up lane. Our daycare takes Katelynn to school and picks her up, but with the preschool getting out at the same time at the elementary school and her having 4 other kids in the car there was nowhere close to park. I was a little freaked out and so was she because neither of us were ready to let the kids go somewhere new. We ended up being able to work out a plan. Drop off in the morning is fine and now Katelynn eats lunch at school and takes the bus to what would be her normal drop off by our house and the daycare picks her up there. This is probably a good thing so that if the daycare is closed then Katelynn knows how to ride the bus and its just down the block. She is also very happy to be eating lunch at school.

She has now been in school for a little over a full month and is still loving every minute of it. She likes her special classes and can't wait each week for their turn to go to the library and pick out a new book. She loves her principal and always comes home with some story about what he did at school or what he is going to do. He seems to be very involved with the kids. She told me her Art teacher talks really loud and she wasn't too keen on him. She also has gym, music and computer. After the first 3 weeks of school Katelynn now has a special seat at class and according to her so do her two friends. Apparently they talk too much during class and now are seated either alone or separated. I haven't quite got it figured out yet. Too funny. I figured that might happen. She has figured out as well after the first week of eating lunch at school that she needs to eat within a certain time limit or she doesn't get to finish her meal and then she is starving. Again, this is because she was talking too much. I hope that she continues to enjoy her classes and loves her school.