My sweet La-La is at school. Her year of waiting is over and she stepped on the bus full of confidence and excitement. Her birthday is September 1st and in our previous area you had to be 5 by August 31st. She missed the cut off by 7 hours and 45 minutes. We debated about testing her to allow her to start but the test was expensive and even if she passed she could have been pulled out after 6 weeks if the teacher didn't feel it was working. Finally after months of not knowing what to do, I asked La-La what she wanted and she said she wanted to wait so that is what we did! It worked out perfect because she was able to go to a wonderful preschool and made a friend for life, Lyla.At the district we live in here, they have the kindergartners start the second week and she will only go 1 & 1/2 days this week. Next week she will be on her full-time schedule of Tues/Thurs all day and half day Friday.
La-La was so excited to start today. It was hard for her to see Jaco get on the bus last week and not go with him. She picked out her new outfit and has been trying to wear her new shoes everyday but I was mean and made her wait. She didn't even look back when she got on the bus. She wanted to sit by her first grade friend (who is only 3 months older) so that is what she did! Jaco was so sweet and wanted to sit by her to because he is her big brother. He was able to sit across from her but I am afraid his feelings were hurt because he wasn't next to her. Care Bear was sad to see La-La leave. She cried because she wanted to go too.
It is so strange to be here with just Care Bear and I. We are going to go to the park this morning and I am looking forward to taking a nap while Care Bear naps! My family is growing and changing and I think it is ok?!
La-La was so excited to start today. It was hard for her to see Jaco get on the bus last week and not go with him. She picked out her new outfit and has been trying to wear her new shoes everyday but I was mean and made her wait. She didn't even look back when she got on the bus. She wanted to sit by her first grade friend (who is only 3 months older) so that is what she did! Jaco was so sweet and wanted to sit by her to because he is her big brother. He was able to sit across from her but I am afraid his feelings were hurt because he wasn't next to her. Care Bear was sad to see La-La leave. She cried because she wanted to go too.
It is so strange to be here with just Care Bear and I. We are going to go to the park this morning and I am looking forward to taking a nap while Care Bear naps! My family is growing and changing and I think it is ok?!
4 comments:
Oh WOW - she's in school. I think you'll quickly adjust. :)
She looks tooo happy to go to school. Spencer is ready to go as well, but he is having fun going to parks and counting the days until pre-school. You'll get use to the vacant time tooo quickly!!!!! Scrap booking is in the future!!!!
Wow two down, one to go! Good luck La La in shcool!
What are you going to do with yourself? She looks so cute! This is random, but I still remember the smell of new shoes, school supplies etc. And how we would set our clothes out the night before. I just remembered I had bright red Reebok high tops! HEE! Hee!
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