Today was Theo's first day of 4-year-old, half day kindergarden.
I thought I was going to be okay.
I'd be lying if I told you that I didn't bust into tears as this gigantic yellow bus carrying my very little boy drove away from me. I'd be lying if I told you that I didn't follow it all they way to school, so that I could be there when he got off, to take him to his classroom for the very first time.
Thankfully, his cousin-friends were on that bus looking after him, too. I'd be lying if I told you that I didn't cry, again, as he walked into school like this with his Lucy.
Once inside, and once he nestled his coat and his back pack into his cubby, he was quick to find a space between friends (some old, most new) on the rug in his classroom for the first time. He was quick to wave me off with certainty, confident that I'd be back.
He was happy to be "as big as Gabe" in his big "school house." And I was happy that he was so thrilled. I don't know what I'd have done if he'd cried, too.
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Aww... such a proud mommy!
I'd be lying if I told you this didn't make me a little teary...
What a big boy! Hope his first day was FABULOUS!
Oh, how sweet that you followed his bus to school! I'd feel the exact same way watching my little boy go off on a school bus. Big milestone in your household!
My lower lip is stuck out in sympathy for you. I can't imagine...
And I absolutely LOVE that you followed the bus to school :)
Ahhh, but we all made it! It's hard isn't it? But they all looked so cute this am. Emily I have to say--the first one was the easy one for me--Chewie was the hardest one--and I will continue to blame those tears in my eyes on the sun!!!
Oh. My gosh. now i'm crying. so sweet. and i'm SO glad you taped it and put this on here. what a awesome time of year, and an awesome stage of life for Theo, and YOU. Congratulations. :)
this is a great depiction of what when on this morning. i feel like i was there!
love it.
muah
where did that time go? what a big boy. that was precious. thanks for sharing.
it really is a remarkable thing to watch your baby walk off and do something entirely on his own. i know just the feeling you had watching him get onto the bus. i still get it, three years in, when i see my little boy on such a big bus. it's like this ache in your heart as you watch until you can't see anymore. i got it just this morning as i watched little ella get onto her little bus (a van) to go to pre-school. it's like a wrenching feeling....almost like giving birth, where you're happy that they're out to meet you, but you feel vulnerable because your body can't protect them anymore. oh, i so know. maybe i sound a little neurotic...but isn't that our right as mamas? and, by the way....i don't think that feeling ever really goes away. not for me anyhow. love you.
That backpack is bigger than he is! You have such big memories made with these boys every single day. What a blessing.
love you
now i'm nervous for ethan to go to school...he won;t have his lucy to be there. My co worker's first one just moved into the dorms at UWSP and she is a wreck! It never ends.
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