The Leonard Family: It was a BIG day!

Thursday, August 8, 2013

It was a BIG day!

Today was Jack's first day of Kindergarten! I think it is something we have talked about for a long time! We never thought we would have a sweet boy that was old enough to go to school! Jack always makes us proud, and today was no exception!
We have talked about going to school and how big it would be to start Kindergarten! Honestly, Lucy may have been more excited than Jack! We have gotten to visit the school a couple of times over the last couple of weeks and Jack was getting more excited! We got to do the Kindergarten Round Up about a week ago with Jack. The bus came around and picked up all the Kindergarten kids and their parents (There is a much longer story to this that involves Lucy not being able to ride the bus and she and I walking away with tears to follow the bus because she was too little! Oh gracious... hurt my heart! Anyway...another time! She recovered and she got to go to the school too!) Jack really loved the bus and got to see a friend from his preschool on the bus with him! We also went to Open House on Tuesday night to meet his teacher! Jack knew more people than we did that night! A little girl called his name in the hall and they ran and hugged eachother! And then he ran around playing with 4-5 kids from his school that he saw while we looked around and met some parents! It was such a great feeling!!!
This morning the kiddos got up and got to put on their new shoes and come down for breakfast where they each had a new box of crayons and a balloon! I had bought some donuts as a breakfast treat on this special day! They were so excited! I went to get the donuts....and their were ants ALL OVER THEM! Ewwwww! We can't tell where they came from or why they were there, but so much for the treat! Reality! They got over that pretty quickly since they were so excited! We all took Lucy to school and then headed to Vickery Creek for the first day! Jack had on his backpack with his snack and lunch! He was so proud! As we waited to turn in the school he was bouncing in his seat. He kept saying, "Where is it?! I can't seen the school yet!!!" We parked and walked in together. As soon as we got out of the car, Jack saw one of his buddies! He and Connor walked in together talking like little people about their backpacks, the lunches they brought and who their teacher was going to be! We walked him in and he was happy to be in his class! He sat down to start coloring and barely looked back! We walked out so proud! Our baby was all grown up and happy confident and ready to start his day!
Jack had a great first day! Daddy picked him up and they both went to get a hair cut and a special donut treat! They picked up Lucy and came home for all of us to eat dinner together! Jack talked about new friends, a gingerbread man hunt in his class, his fun lunch, seeing friends and even getting to see Morgan at the end of the day! He said, "I love Kindergarten!" He can't wait to go back tomorrow and is really excited about riding the bus to school! Another first for us!

It's been such a happy and busy summer for us! We are so blessed and so proud of our little family!