My Big Kindergartner!

I CAN'T believe my little big girl is off to Kindergarten! For about a week before school started, I would tear up at random moments, just thinking about how fast time flies by. I mean, I remember being in Kindergarten myself, and it just doesn't seem like that long ago! (I'm sure being pregnant doesn't help with my emotional state as well!) I was also terrified of putting my 5 year old on a school bus and just assuming that she made it to school, and not really knowing that she was safe until 3 1/2 hours later when she would supposedly return on the correct school bus! Doesn't that freak anyone else out?!! Well, it didn't phase Makaylee! She was so excited to go to school, she was just beaming!

She looked way too old, way too big, and way too independent!

Walking to the bus stop. . .Little girl, BIG backpack!

She was as cool as a cucumber while we waited for the bus with her cute friends!

Here the sad part of the story begins. The school had given all of us the wrong bus schedule, so we all missed the school bus! When we realized how late it was we all grabbed our kiddos and drove off to the school as fast as we could. When we pulled up the bell was ringing! I had planned on following the school bus and taking some cute pictures of her at school, but there was no time! I rushed her to the outside of the kindergarten room, and knocked on the door (hoping her teacher wouldn't make us go in through the office.) She opened the door and swept Makaylee inside as I was saying "We got the wrong bus schedule, I need to talk to the office, can I go in through your room?"

"No" She said "You may go around." And literally shut the door in my face! I wasn't even able to give Makaylee a hug, a kiss, a good luck, NOTHING! I stood at the door, watching my baby girl walking to her seat, and and just kind of stuttered to myself for a moment.

I am extremely lucky in the fact that my sweet mother is a reading teacher at Makaylee's school! She gave me a good shoulder to cry on and also promised me that she would make sure Makaylee got home on the right bus. That eased my anxiety tremendously!

She's was still beaming when she got home from school! What a sweetheart! I was so happy to see her! (And it has just gotten better and easier from here!)