Kindergarten!! Here I come!!

Congratulations, Henry, on your first day of kindergarten!!! Here are a few pictures of the day. I had a really hard time getting ANY pictures at all of him standing still.
On the monkey bars before school starts. We've been here before, and he's very proud that he's been able to do the whole thing.
Coming out of the school at the end of the day...actually, 11:50 a.m.

Henry did awesome today. We were a little worried because yesterday morning he had a few meltdowns over nothing. We went to visit his teacher in the afternoon, and he was fine ever since. He woke up this morning and said, 'I get to go to school today!' He hopped out of bed, got dressed, and was downstairs in hardly any time. We got in the van and dropped Charles off at Ja Neal's. I almost felt worse for him. We hadn't really worried about Charles since he'd be going to the same place he always does. But, Henry wasn't going to be with him. Charles asked in the van if Henry would be going to Ja Neal's, and I said he was going to school instead. Charles response...'Well, if he isn't going to Ja Neal's, then you're fired!!' I'm not sure what I was being fired from, but I just said, 'Okay.' Charles didn't cry when I dropped him off (he hasn't done that for at least a year), but you could tell he was close. Ja Neal (she's so amazing), just took him by the hand and brought him to breakfast and he was fine. Henry, Min and I picked up Travis and went to breakfast. Henry asked, oh about 100 times, if he was going to be late for school. We got there at 8:50, and the bell rings at 9:10. He played on the playground and when the teacher cam to call them to line up, he ran off to line up with everyone else. Not a good-bye, not a hug, nothing. We were feeling a little relieved. Yes, a hug would have been nice, however, Henry has notoriously had a very difficult time starting new things...Sunday school...tae kwon do...etc. We've had a great deal of leg hanging, crying, running away from the tae kwon do instructor... (also a very amazing person). So, we were able to give up the hug for a boy who was excited to line up with everyone else. Of course, I cried as we left the parking lot....and again after I dropped Travis off at work....and again as I drove back by the school on my way home.... I couldn't believe my baby was old enough to go to kindergarten. We picked him up after school and had a picnic before picking up Charles. We managed to make it Ja Neal's just in time to see his oldest and best friend, Mikka, get on the bus. She started kindergarten today, too. And, what did Henry's mom do? She cried!! Thank goodness Ja Neal cries at everything too, so I didn't feel too foolish. But, it didn't seem that long ago that Mikka and Henry started at Ja Neal's together. They were 14 months old. In the newsletter, Ja Neal would write that they managed to find the toilet paper and it was strewn all around the bathroom.

Congratulations, Henry!! We're very proud of you!!!