Its Official...we have a Kindergartner!!!

Brian and I decided to go ahead and start Christian in kindergarten this upcoming school year. Initially we were going to hold him back because of his late birthday, but decided not to. Where we live it is more common to repeat children in kindergarten or 1st grade than it is to have them move forward. Since we are positive that he will not be the only one of his friends to stay behind, he is going to the big school!

We could not be more excited to start this adventure with Christian. He was a little apprehensive at first and kept telling me, “he wanted to stay at his school”. However, it quickly changed when we talked about all the friends he would have there with him. In Liberty Park, our neighborhood, they make a big deal out of starting kindergarten. A week ago, I helped a group of moms put out huge crayola crayon balloons on all the mailboxes of the upcoming kindergartners! This has been a long standing tradition out in our neighborhood. It gets the kids really excited to go to the big school. There is nothing more exciting to these little ones than to come home to a huge crayon on their mailbox. It is a symbol to them, that they are big kids now and they get to go to the “big" school. We have lived out here for five years. The past three years we have seen many crayons on mailboxes. I would always have to explain what it meant and why Christian could not have one, but that one day he would! Well, that one day is now! He was so excited to come home and see the big crayon tied to the mailbox. We drove around the neighborhood so he could see all the kids who also got crayons! I loved watching the excitement as he would point out the crayons and say, “ they are going to kindergarten too mommy!”

Can I use this as a sword!?

He took that balloon down and played with it for awhile...I thought he might sleep with it! The orientation is this week and I can not wait to see what he thinks of his new school!