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| Here's Leo posing with his big Sis on her first day |
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| Here they are in front of the school building |
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| I was trying to get Sophia a picture where it looked "schoolish" but it was so sunny and there were so many people it was hard. |
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| Sophia is sailing into Kinder! |
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Hanging up her backpack
(notice this is the point where she gets "the look"...really, Mom, you have to take a picture of this?) |
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| at her desk next to John, who happens to have the same birthday as Sophia! |
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| with her teacher, Mrs. Warner |
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one...last...shot...as I exit the classroom :(
Notice, however, that I was far from the last parent in the room |
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| On our way back up to pick her up with Walter in tow. |
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Love this.
She was so excited to see us after her first day and I love how her curls are flying in the breeze |
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| happy to be reunited and running down the hill towards home |
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| This is the picture she drew of her and her teacher |
Sophia was so very excited for her first day. It's no secret that I've been "dreading" this day for equally as long! ;) Of course I cried and Charlie tried to rush me out of there with as little of a scene as possible. Sophia was perfectly fine letting us go and the next day I didn't even get to cross the threshold of the school building. She is only half day, which means it's only 3 hours (which makes my tears a tiny bit more pathetic, but whatever) but I still feel like that is okay for now. She'd be happy going all day but besides my own selfish reasons for keeping her in half day, I like the idea of gradually moving into this full time school business.
Originally the half day kids were to be mixed in with the full day kids and then they would leave at 11:05 while the others stayed. I was not too thrilled with this set-up, but luckily, just a few days before school started, the principal notified us that they had enough kids for a dedicated half day class! Wahoo! The poor teacher however was hired 6 days before school started and threw together her room that isn't really even a K room. But I'm happy with this set up for sure. This way it enables her (and me) to make some friends from her class and know we are all on the same schedule.
So far she has loved every single minute and is happy to tell me about her day. She loves having show and tell and checking out books and is very interested in music class and loves her teacher, so really I think we're doing all right for now.
