This picture really is worth a thousand words. This is my beautiful daughter, McKenzie, so excited to start her first day of kindergarten. She is confident and assured that she will succeed at this journey because this is something she has been waiting for, practicing, and planning. In what has been our families longest running campaign to prepare for something, the get excited for kindergarten campaign started the day Kenzie recognized her first school bus and continued as she saw her cousins go off to school. When we shared stories of when Matt and I went to school and the visits we've paid to her elementary school before the big day. Over the summer Kenzie created her own countdown calendar and has been patiently marking off the days one by one. Before we knew it we were there.
Matt and I gave her a special necklace for her first day with a big monkey and a little monkey so she'd know we were thinking of her. She loved it!
Ready to head out to walk to the school bus which is a quarter of a mile away.
This daily walk is going to be part of the family exercise plan, especially if we have to carry Ben there and back.
Daddy and Ben waiting for the bus to take Kenzie to school. Now it's Ben's turn to have the full force of the get excited for kindergarten campaign. The good thing is he is already bought-in and is trying to figure out how to get older faster so he can get on that bus. We told him he needed two more birthdays until he was five and could go to kindergarten. Then after the next birthday party he went to, he told me that now he was four and just needed one more birthday party before he could ride the bus. Poor guy thought he could just sneak that past us.
Getting on the bus with all the neighborhood kids, it's amazing how many kids actually live near us.
After we walked home I jumped in the car and raced to the school to see Kenzie before she headed into her classroom. She had already found her teacher and was happily in line and when it came time to head to class she just gave me a wave and headed off without a look back.
Where did my baby go? I've found out in this journey that my baby is still there, saving her biggest hug for me when she gets home from school and waiting to share all the little details of her day. She has really be thriving at kindergarten and continues to amaze me daily.
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