Time flies. Quickly. And for some reason it always seems to fly faster as we age. How ironic it is that when we’re young we can’t wait to grow old, and once we’re old we wish time would just get back to that place where an hour felt like eternity. Today feels like one of those times where I wish time would put on the brakes. It’s so difficult for my mind to wrap around the fact that this guy:
It seems like yesterday I was holding him in my arms for the first time. And although he’s been at daycare during the day since he was 2 months old, he’s always been close by to me, always been in the same building with babies and toddlers, always been with the same teacher in the same room all day, and always had nap time. Now he will learn structure, he will have different teachers, he will be farther away from home, and he will retire his Buzz Lightyear blanket. He will learn the value of community, that the ‘totem pole’ is quite tall and he has far to climb, and that the arts consist more than just finger painting and the ‘tootie tot’ song. My boy is entering that time of forever remembrance, and I couldn’t be more proud.
Last Thursday Thing 1’s school held Open House and we got to explore the hallways, his new classroom, and met his very first elementary teacher.
K’s school is wonderful! He was nervous in the inside, I could tell, but as we were walking down the 1st grade hall to get to his room all the teachers were smiling and saying good morning. He said, “Wow, all the teachers really like me! I’m not that nervous anymore!” What a sweetheart he is!
At K’s screening, Mrs. H was one of the ones who assessed him. They didn’t really say much after his assessment, so we were wondering what they thought. At Open House she said to us, “Soooo, obviously K doesn’t need kindergarten curriculum.” She said how they were just giving him all kinds of school papers to read and he was going on about division and density. LOL. But she has a pretty good idea of how to challenge him and we meet with her next Friday to discuss it further. I feel totally confident that she will give him what he needs, and he loves her already!
I actually surprised myself and cried a teeeeeny bit. I didn’t think I would because he’s been going to daycare since infancy and I am a school teacher. But I felt like, as stated in my recent post about Thing 2 going to daycare, this was another small moment where I let go of him just a little bit. In the car Ian was laughing (lovingly) at me because I suddenly got worried that when he goes to school the next day he’ll be walking to his classroom by himself and may get lost or feel lonely. But I had to remind myself that the kid knows the states of matter and how molecules look in each….he can handle walking down the hall by himself.
Now it’s time for me to take my other son to get his dreaded 2 month shots in which there is a 99.9% chance I will cry. It’s a tough mom day. But I would never ever have it any other way.
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What a cute guy! He's going to love kindergarten. 🙂
I just sat here and cried- time does pass much too quickly and I can't believe he's in Kindergarten already, even if he is smart enough to be in 4th grade :). I love you, my precious sister. Hug both of those precious boys for me and tell Iannot to laugh too hard. Love- Sis
OH MY! He is so big now. Time slips away when we are having the most fun. My little one turned 1 today Sep 11. =)
<3 Marienell