First Day of Kindergarten

It's official. My baby is now a big boy kindergartner. He was very excited to go his first day, showed hardly no nervousness at all, and could barely be bothered with telling me good-bye (which I'm actually grateful for).

It helped that he already had a little friend, Maysi, in his class, who is also in his class at church. Maysi is very mothering, and came up to Alex and gave him a big hug as soon as she saw him.

I liked the way that Alex's teacher had the parents come in the classroom as she read the class a book about the first day of kindergarten. At the end of the book, the parents give their kids a final hug and wave good-bye... which was a polite cue for us parents to then hit the road.

Alex has come home so happy every single day so far and is really loving school. I have even gone against the grain of my overprotective motherly instincts, and let him take the bus to and from school. The bus seems to be his very favorite part of the day.

I have a few frustrations and reservations. One, being that his teacher will be going on maternity leave in the middle of the year and am worried about the kids having to adjust to a brand new teacher at that time. The other being that there was a rash of slacker parents who registered their kids at the last minute, taking Alex's class from a nice and tidy 20 students, up to 26. Twenty six kindergartners.... that's all I'm going to say about that.

Regardless of my griping, I really am so grateful that Alex is such an easy-going and social little guy and is having so much fun going to school. His big sister was a whole other story 15 years ago, and so I am going to enjoy every minute of it!