Kindergarten Rocks!

Apparently everything about kindergarten is awesome. The playground, the toys, the books, the kids, and most especially, the teacher. I knew that Emma had a great teacher, but after 2 days of seeing her interact with the kids, I am dying of anticipation for this school year. It's going to be so great!
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After I nudged her awake yesterday morning, she rolled over with squinty, tired eyes. But it took less than 1 second for her eyeballs to fly open. She squealed, jumped out of bed & raced past me to the bathroom to get ready. This kid was READY to go!

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[A side note: I bought Emma 3 new school outfits. I purposefully went to out-of-the-way stores so that she wouldn't match anyone else, and nobody would be able to say "Oh, they got that outfit at Target." So what does she do? She chooses the 1 outfit that I picked up off a clearance pile at Wal-Mart. I don't only shop at Wal-Mart, I promise! I usually try to avoid it if I can, actually. But somehow we ended up with an outfit & a backpack from Wally-world this year. Oh, well, she's happy, right?}

So after the requisite "first day of school" photos, and 1 of the hair, we were off.

A little photo at the school & she was running for the playground to meet her teacher. She looks so small! The AWESOME teacher, Mrs. Madigan. Oddly enough, we bought our new car from her husband a few weeks ago, so we got the scoop early that we'd be in her class. Lucky us!Poor Frank is so ready to start school. He ran right out there & joined in with the big kids. It almost broke my heart to bring him home with me. Preschool next year buddy, I promise!

Mrs. Madigan was introducing Emma to some other kids when we left. Oh, my baby is so big! Actually, considering how much older she is than most of these kids, I was amazed at how small she was compared to them. Why am I amazed? I really should be used to it by now.

And after 3 hours of the most anticipated school day ever, she was done. Hmm, what was all the excitement about? When I asked her how school went, she said, OK. And when I tried to drag more info out of her, she just told me that it was fine. FINE??? How old is this kid? A little later she did manage to loosen up & gush about how much she loved everything. Thank goodness, I was beginning to think she didn't like it!

I'm just trying to remind myself that she's only going to be this excited for school for a while. (I'm imagining dragging her out of bed by her hair to get her to go to high school.)

So that's it! We're off & running and I can't wait to see what happens next.