First Day |of Kindergarten

 

Marie was so excited to go to Kindergarten! It is so great having the school right up the street so Brett could also take the time to walk her to school. Here she is all-decked out and ready to party!

 

Off we go to Cummings Elementary school.

   

Everyone asks, “Did you cry?” Well, I will say I almost got a little teary eyed while walking to school, but I didn’t to freak Marie out. In fact, I didn’t see any other parents getting emotional so I sucked it up and tried to be a man.

 

Mina has missed Marie all week. We’ve had some good bonding time, but having 2-4 doctors visits every week this month I have not gotten as much time with her as I thought I would. I was hoping September would be a “boring month” but so far we’ve had to fight pretty hard to get things to calm down. Mina sures loves her Marie though.

 

After Marie’s first day of school she complained that, “Mina doesn’t seem to miss me.” I had to reassure her Mina talks about her all day long.

 

I think Marie is doing really well so far. She seems very confident, a little sassy, but still my sweet baby. I think having her friend Lilianna in her same class has helped. They are quite the sneaky silly pair.

She of course never really wants to talk about her day right when we get home, but by the time Dad gets home she goes on about every detail for at least an hour. Of course, he does ask all the right questions.

But the truth is I definitely cried this week. My baby is turning into a school girl. She will always be a little girl in my heart but it’s hard not to see her as much. Even if I am dragging her around on errands with me all day. School has been so good for our family. Getting up earlier and enjoying the time we do have together. The girls didn’t use the IPad one time this week! That is HUGE deal for us. And almost no tv…. hey, what can we say, we like our shows.

I did Marie’s hair in a heart braid.

It’s the simple things ya know?

Marie convinced us to make Peter Pans “Wendy’s Molasses Cookies” I kept asking her if she was “sure” she just didnt want to make something like chocolate chip (you know, something good), but she was sure. They actually turned out pretty good, the girls loved them. Here we are spilling the molasses of course. (I guess you could also count “Baby Millburn” in the picture below).

It’s been a week of change, that is for sure. Love my little family!