First Day of Pre-K

Today is the first day of Pre-Kindergarten.  It is all so much, is it not?

This one short year and she will be in official school, as in, the required kind.  I'm so happy for her.  She has been looking forward to this day for some time, yet I have been all worked up over it.

This morning as I took her in and she walked off to meet up with friends Olivia and Maddy I teared up.  She told me to walk away.  I took some breaths, found a mom to walk out with and did just as my sweet, super excited, independent child asked me to do.

Very fun and exciting times...

Pre-Kindergarten Registration

Yesterday was pre-k registration for Lil Bit.  She'll be going to the same school as last year (for preschool).  It was nice on one hand to have an idea of how the process works and to know who the staff is.  It was nice to sign up for activities and plan ahead.  It's hard though, to know I have one short year of pre-k before my child is officially enrolled in school.  She's grown up so much in the last year and learned so many new things.  I feel like every time I turn around, she's managed something new.  I used to try and write it all down...first steps, first words, first foods, first friends....and now I just hope to catch some big stuff like name writing...even though she writes it backwards. One day she did not recognize her written name and then the next, she's writing it.  It's still nearly illegible enough that most people don't "see" it....but I do...that scribble that looks like an "i" with three "o" looking shapes behind it.

At any rate...I came home from pre-k parent orientation with a bunch of great things to read for the school year.  I look forward to this year, as much as I dread what its end will mean.