Okay, I got a little misty-eyed, but no real tears!* And Kate and Claire did great. Monday was their first day of school; Kate started Kindergarten and Claire is back in pre-school. We dropped Kate off first, as there are actual RULES regarding tardiness and such, and then walked over to Claire's room. Kate was so excited; she has been talking about Kindergarten for the whole summer. We have tried to cultivate this interest to the right level (e.g. not overdoing it so that she wouldn't sleep the night before, but not ignoring it so that she would be taken by surprise when the first day of school came and she was no longer permitted to wear her pepto-pink princess dresses).
I took surprisingly few photos, due to the boy one's intense desire to climb out of my arms and eat glue sticks. I enthusiastically begged the children to smile, and managed to snap at least one worthy of the blog.
Claire's pose is remarkably similar to Kate's on this day last year.
She'll be 5 in a month. She is likely both the youngest and the tallest kid in her class.
Claire gave me a brief smile before going back to her toys. She didn't even say good-bye when I left. Sniff.
*Luke, however, was surprisingly vocal in his desire to stay at school. Just to be clear, I was not surprised by this, but Claire's teachers were slightly alarmed.
6 comments:
So sweet! I love those uniforms. Sometimes I wish the public school here was doing uniforms.
Can you please tell your kids to stop growing up so fast. Thank you.
Andrea
Are those uniforms or just adorable matching outfits that you found? So, does Kate go all day every day or just morning or afternoon? How high do the grades go in the private school - I assume it's a private school. We started Noah on kindergarten 2 weeks ago and he loves it, too! Miss you all!
They wear uniforms. Kate goes everyday all day and Claire goes MWF mornings. There is a lot of time spent in the car! Oh, and this school goes K-5 or K-6, not sure.
Oh, first day of school is so crazy-cool-fun-neat-weird! And the uniforms are so cute!
Ummm. Kate looks remarkably tall in these pictures.
How did you handle the transition to all day every day? Does that seem too long? Do you feel like you are losing her already? Does the whole house seem empty? WHY OH WHY MUST CHILDREN GO TO SCHOOL??????
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