Kelly the Kindergartener!!!!!

Yesterday was Kelly's FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN!!!!! She was SO excited!!


I think Luke's pretty clueless when it comes to the girls and school and everything, but he sure showed me otherwise yesterday!! He was sad that Kelly had to go, and kept asking when we were going to pick her up- it was cute.


waiting by the door for Mrs. Davis to come out!


testing out the new playground


opening the door......


This is Kelly's cousin Marcus who started Kindergarten yesterday as well.


And here's Kelly with her friend Abby who is in our ward and now they are both in Mrs. Davis' class together- so cool!


waving goodbye!!!!!


and there she goes! My baby girl is in school..... I can't believe it.


This was her AFTER school, I wanted to get one of her walking out, but she was too fast for me.


Kelly has been looking forward to school ever since Charity started looking forward to school, so it's been a LONG wait for her. She was SO excited that morning she jumped out of bed, and was pretty much bouncing off the walls all morning. She got ready so fast, and was so sweet to everyone, wanted to have a "crown" in her hair- for her special day, and she didn't throw any tantrums- it was amazing. At the school she kept asking when I was going to leave, and telling me that she was okay by herself if I "needed to leave". She's so funny. I had to sit there and watch! And I think the fact that she was so thrilled to be there, and leaving me and all made it harder for me to not cry!! She gave me a big hug before she stood by the door, and didn't even look back once they started walking in the school :( They had a cute little BOO HOO BREAKFAST there in the Kindergarten area, fruit, muffins, juice, very cute idea- the boys loved it :) But they had this little poem about how hard it is to leave your parents, and how you feel all alone going to kindergarten, and that it will be soon that your mom will pick you up (I should find the little paper, and type it out) but it was so funny because I started reading it to Kelly and knew that NONE of it really applied to her..... so we stopped :) She even thought it was weird :) But anyway, she was just really ready to go to school.
She sure loved it too. We heard ALL about her day- she had a cookie, sang "Who Stole the Cookie From the Cookie Jar", stood in a circle, sang "5 Little Speckled Frogs" but they said, "ribbet, ribbet" instead of "GLUB GLUB", she saw James (from down the street) at recess, and made volcanoes with the wood chips, and she made a "School Tools Tool Box" to bring home. When I asked her what her favorite part of school was, she told me "the cookie!" I love it :) She told us all the new rules, and all the rewards she gets if she is good- and she made sure to point out that she "was the best in the class!" I'm really excited for her to have Mrs. Davis. So anyway. Big moment for us all.
The boys were cute having just the three of them with me for part of the day. Bradley discovered on the way home from the school, that he was the oldest!! That meant he was in charge!! (according to him :)) So I pretty much just let them do whatever :) Spoiled little boys. It was an interesting day. I'm happy for Kelly though, I think she will do great in school.