Today is Gretchen's first day of kindergarten. I wanted to write a fresh blog post and not have anything scheduled, because I wanted to have today's post fresh in my head. So, I could accurately relay my thoughts and feelings.
Tuesday, we went to Gretchen's school for her kindergarten assessment. The teacher asked her her letters, sounds, syllables, and rhyming. Gretchen said she did great and only missed two questions.
Yesterday, my mom and grandma came to Tulsa and spent the afternoon and night. When they arrived, we went out for ice cream, came home, and let the girls play for a while. After dinner, they helped give the girls a bath, clean the kitchen, and Gretchen and I fixed her lunch.
We used a container from Pottery Barn that I purchased from their outlet store in Memphis. I love all of it's little compartments! Gretchen wanted tomatoes, cucumbers, grapes, and I made her little turkey and cheese roll ups, and fixed her a salad of spinach and cheese, and told her she could add her veggies too. (And as I'm writing this, I totally forgot to give her a little fork to eat her salad with!) Anyway, I know she'll survive, but yes, I feel like the worst mother ever- ha! She also had a container of ranch and asked to take yogurt as well. I'm 99.9% sure that she had too much food.
After her bath, we painted her toe nails and finger nails. She likes painting them in a pattern, so they were yellow with sparkle, then pink sparkle. Her fingernails were all yellow w/ sparkle. We also curled her hair with the pink foam rollers. I wanted to blow dry her hair straight, but she insisted on the rollers. Probably because she hates having her hair blow dried.
We went outside before bed and took her picture:
Afterwards, I took her to her room and read her a book I had purchased called, "The Night Before Kindergarten", and I gave her a school bus chunky necklace that I had purchased here, for her to wear on her first day.
I'll admit, my eyes swelled up with tears, and I had to choke back on a few tears while reading to her.
This morning I woke up a little after 6 and started getting dressed. I also read this blog post and once again tears welled up in my eyes. It is my prayer that Gretchen (and all of the girls) know that I will be there for them always. No matter where we are, no matter where she is, I will be there. My mom (and grandma) have always been there for me.... throughout the tears of not being dance team captain my senior year, to break ups, to an engagement, a wedding, and moving to three states, and seven houses, and the birth of my three children, they've always been there. I pray that Gretchen will know that we will be there for her too.
I made her blueberry muffins, greek yogurt, and gave her a few Lucky Charms, because she thinks those will make her have a lucky day.
After she ate, we took the curlers out of her hair, and got her dressed. DJ made it back home at 8 and we had plenty of time to get lots and lots of pictures!
I bought the chalkboard frame here.
Her dress came from Smocked Sweets on Facebook.
Her hair bow came from my own shop.
And her necklace from LG's Chunky Necklaces.
Turning out of our neighborhood was a mess, so we cut through another neighborhood and made it to the school within 10 minutes. We parked by the middle school, because the parking lot for the elementary was crazy, and we walked over. As we were walking, we ran into her friend from preschool, and stopped for a photo op.
We arrived before the bell rang, and we stood in line with the other anxious children and parents. Gretchen played in the grass, looked for four-leaf clovers, and picked a weed bouquet for her teacher.
Thankfully, daddy told her she couldn't take it into school and she gave it to him instead.
Once the bell rang, we again took her picture outside of the school (with the school name, but i'm not sharing it here due to privacy reasons) and we walked her down the hallway to the gym.
Once we walked in the door, she immediately said that she wanted to go by herself and that she did not want us to go with her. I explained I had to go because I was carrying her backpack, and she took it from me to carry herself.
I told her we were still going with her!
We made it to the gym, and she sat in the kindergarten line and waited to be dismissed to her class. This is when I teared up. Watching her sit amongst these little kindergarten strangers, who might one day become her friends. She looked a little scared and a little lonely, and I just wanted to go sit beside her and hold her hand.
I turned to look at DJ and then tried to not let myself cry any more. I didn't want her to see my cry, and to be honest, I didn't see many other parents crying.
Once she was dismissed, we walked her to her classroom, and she yet again told us she wanted to go by herself.
We hung back just a tiny bit and let her go in by herself. She instantly went over to her "locker" and a friend from dance class two years ago, was sitting at the table. We knew Gretchen and E were going to be in the same class room from meet the teacher night, and I'm glad that E was already there coloring. She jumped up when she saw Gretchen and helped Gretchen get her heavy backpack in her locker, and then told Gretchen she could sit beside her.
It melted my heart knowing that she already has a little friend in her class and seeing how sweet E was being to her. The girls sat down beside each other, at a table full of other little girls, and began to color the picture the teacher had placed on their table.
I knew she'd be okay.
I told DJ that we hadn't even hugged or kissed her yet, so we walked over and told her that we were leaving, and I asked her to give me a kiss. I honestly figured she'd tell me no, because she didn't want to be embarrassed in front of her little friends. But, she kissed me anyway, and I was so glad that she's still too little to think that its silly to give your mommy a kiss.
DJ walked over and gave her a kiss too, and we walked out of the classroom and out of the school leaving our little girl behind.
Once we got home, I was greeted by Megan and my mom who had stayed home with the little girls. We decided to go to Hobby Lobby for some shopping, and i'm so glad because it took my mind off Gretchen being away.
We ate at Panera for lunch, just my mom, grandma, myself, Meggie, and Addy, and I was again thankful for being busy.
It's nap time now, and I finally have Addy to sleep and Meggie is sleeping too. But, we'll be on our way to pick up Gretchen in just a bit, and I'm so excited to hear how her day went!
My baby is in kindergarten and we made it through the morning; we made it through the summer and the changes, and the day i've been anxiously and nervously thinking about since the day she was born. I just pray she knows i'll always be there. I'll always walk her into school as long as she'll let me, and she'll always be my little girl.
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