First Day of Kindergarten

On his first day of Kindergarten, Noah came downstairs fully dressed with socks and shoes on, teeth brushed and hair combed - all without any help- and all by 6:30 in the morning! I was in the shower, since we don't leave for school until well over an hour later....

There he was doing a silly dance right in the middle of my bathroom, and although he wouldn't admit it, he was SO excited about school.

Pictures on the front porch with his teacher gift

Can you see the excitement?!

Outside at the school with Daddy and Ava

Noah & Mommy

Outside his classroom door

In the classroom now, sitting at the table, and tired of Mommy taking pictures....

There were no tears and no desperate clinging to mommy attempts when we left - if you knew Noah when he was younger, you never would have imagined this day... he was oh so clingy as an infant and toddler, and would scream and cry so long and so loud if I was ever away from him.

My sweet boy is now so confident, smart and independent. (Insert proud mom smile here)
And apparently doesn't need Mommy as much anymore :(

An after school picture back at home after eating chocolate chip cookies and opening his "happy" for his first day of schoolAnd for those of you wondering, no I did not cry. I teared up for a minute leaving his classroom, but I had to dry it up so I wouldn't look like a fool when I walked into the office a few minutes later....

I have to admit there were multiple times over the past 5 years of staying at home with the kids that I couldn't wait for the day when school would finally start, but now that it is here I definitely feel otherwise. I am BEYOND THANKFUL that I have the opportunity to stay home with my children. I can't imagine it any other way.

Now if I can just get through the 8 hours we are apart...

Twas the Night before Kindergarten

Noah asked if he could fall asleep in our bed one night, so we let him. When Nathan went in to move him back to his room later, we found our silly boy sound asleep with Nathan's sleep mask on his face. (Nathan uses this when he has to sleep during the day.) Noah sure is getting big, but he's still not too big for Daddy to carry him to bed. And he's sleeping with the puppy that Nona gave him on his first birthday. How sweet. Did I mention he's using that same puppy everyday at "nap-time" in Kindergarten? Precious.