Kindergarten Kid!

Today, Kate started kindergarten.

She was SO ready.  I was SO not ready.

I woke her up this morning, thinking that she would take a while to wake up. She is not a morning person at all. You know those stories about Mom flipping back the covers and turning on the light to get their kid up?  Yeah. That’s gonna be Kate in a few years.  We’re a bit nicer to her for now…

Anyway, I thought it might take a while to get her up, out of bed, and to the table for breakfast.  Well I was wrong. When I first said “kindergarten”, she was up and ready to go!  She breezed through breakfast and was ready to head out the door.  Too bad silly Mom had to get a few pictures. 🙂

And then it was time to go!  I planned to get to school early so I could park and walk her in. Well… I had no clue how bad the traffic and car line would be.  I got near the school a little before 7:30 and they were so backed up, by the time I got up to the school itself and parked, it was 7:55.  Kate kept telling me to just drop her off in the car line.  She said “I know where my class is!”  Of course I walked her in anyway.

Her school had a sound system and DJ (who I’m sure was the assistant principal or another staff member) by the front doorway and they were blaring Pharrell’s “Happy” and had a strobe light going. Kate danced her way down the hall to her class.

I won’t be picking her up from school normally, and the original plan was for my mother in law to pick her up, but I changed my mind and decided that I wanted to do it on the first day.  I mean, your kid only has one first day of kindergarten ever!  And besides, if I didn’t pick her up, by the time I got home from work and asked her how her day went, the only answer I’d get would be “good”.

She had a GREAT first day, but was less than thrilled when I picked her up.  They put a sticker on her shirt with her car number, and apparently she thought it was a BUS sticker.  She did not want to get in the car with me because she said “I was gonna ride the bus, MOM!”