Kindergarten

Emily had her first day of Kindergarten on Monday. She starts school before 8am so it was a challenge getting everything ready that early, but we all got to walk together to her brand new school. Emily was so excited about school starting. She has been talking about it for weeks and just about bounced the entire walk to school. She was given a brand new backpack from her Grandma Wessel and got to go with Daddy to buy a new lunchpail. She wants to use these for everything.....carrying toys, wearing as a hat, swinging in circles. She loves her school supplies!

Emily has 2 teachers for Kindergarten - they trade off days of the week to teach. It is both of their first years at teaching Kindergarten, but they seem very excited at the task ahead of them. Emily says that she loves them both and that she likes how they say "Good Morning Smarties" each day. She feels special to be called smart!

When she came home that first day we discovered that she made a new friend.....a boy named Daniel who she was hugging and KISSING! Yes, our little Emily proves once again that she is older than her years. David thought we could wait until the teen years to have talks about boys and kissing, but she jumped the gun on that one! But Emily is enjoying making new friends. She gets to see a couple kids from church out on the playground who are in different classes than her, but she enjoys that friendly connection.

Week one is almost done now for Kindergarten and Emily is loving every minute of it. Just seeing all the leopards painted around school is enough to keep her wanting to go back every day, since she loves tigers and leopards and cheetahs -- any of the big cats!

David and I have held up pretty well. We are so proud of Emily and excited (although somewhat nervous) for this new step in her life. The only one having problems with Emily in school seems to be little Megan. She doesn't have as much excitement in her days without her big sister. Luckily they get to spend the afternoon laughing and playing away!