King of the Day!!!

My sweet big boy, who LOVES kindergarten, got to be "King of the Day" today! In his class all the kids get to be King or Queen of the day once and then they switch to a "Lion" of the week. As you can tell he was quite proud that it was his turn today!

When Sam asked him what a "King" does when she picked him up from school at noon today, he told her that a King eats chicken and fries, so she indulged and got him his favorite Happy Meal from McDonald's for lunch!

First day of Kindergarten!!!

We made it! We got the school clothes and haircut over the weekend and talked all about how much fun Kindergarten was going to be. We even read two special Kindergarten story books last night (thanks G&G Vaughn for "The Night Before Kindergarten"). Big Boy woke up with a huge grin full of excitement!

The first thing this morning was checking out his new backpack and getting to open the letters that G&G Prohaska wrote to them that arrived in the mail yesterday. The kids immediately had to make a picture with the stickers on paper. They know the rule well that stickers ONLY go on designated paper or sometimes themselves. Hmm...betcha you know how they learned this! If you've been over to our house, check out the side of our coffee table and you'll figure it out.

Papa and I took the day off to spend with our sweet Kindergartner! Had to get the traditional leaving the house first day picture! All grown up! By the way, he picked out what he wore today. I gave him a choice of 5 new shirts, so he was quite happy with himself today.

The parking around the school was complete madness, not surprising for the first day. Lots of parents like us having taken the day off. Anyway, we had to park a couple of blocks away. Big Boy was so excited still that he practically skipped/ran down the sidewalk.

Outside the door to his classroom!

Meeting his teacher and putting his backpack in his cubby.

Putting on his name tag

Aunt Kat got to go see Big Boy off on his first day. She's visiting for a bit before she moves to Washington DC for her new job.

We all did okay until it was time for the parents to go. Big Boy had a few tears and was very clingy to Papa. Can't say I blame him, Aunt Kat and I had teary eyes too. Overall though we all did good and big happy smiles!

While Big Boy was at school we asked Boopy what she wanted to do. We didn't quite have enough time to take her to a movie or do anything big. She told us she wanted to go to a store. So we took her to Wal-Mart and let her pick out a treat. Papa picked out a first day of school treat for Big Boy and I picked up the classroom donation requests his teacher had handed out. Finished up our shopping and headed back to the school a bit early to wait with the other excited parents. I wish I had gotten a picture of Papa peaking through the fence to watch Big Boy at recess! The kindergartners get released not long after recess/snack time, so out came a happy sweaty boy!

Happy day and happy for his monster truck treats

Hope the rest of the days go as well! The real test will be the rest of the week and Monday
when we will be on a normal schedule with Sam dropping and picking him up.

Kindergarten, Already??!!!???

I can't believe it's time to think about Kindergarten already. I came into work late this morning after registering Big Boy for starting school in fall! Yes, he goes to a speech preschool, but it's only one day a week and he's been in daycare/preschool off and on since he was 6 weeks. And yes, I work full-time and am not with him all day long, but really, Kindergarten!??!! When did my Big Boy get so BIG! Before you know it, he'll be in college, getting married and making me a grandma (hopefully in that order!).

I totally get what people say about how fast time flies and how there's something special about your firstborn.