Kindergarten Day

Today is Ava's kindergarten orientation. We're probably taking it slightly too seriously and by "we" I mean "me" but OMG if I'm not so super excited for Ava to be launched into the world of school. I'm determined to make the transition wonderful and that I'll be the only person crying on the first day of school. Which to be honest is the truth since the child has been in daycare since 13 months old and is a model kid who is eager to learn and loves to read for hours on end. And its probably my residual memory of my kindergarten self attaching myself to the railing of the ramp on the way to the classroom screaming bloody murder for my mommy and having to have the teacher pry me away - for the entire first month of school. And my poor mother bribing me to go to kid's birthday parties so I could "be social". Yes, I'm an odd duck with social issues. I think I was a grumpy 74 year old man at 5 just wanting to be at home. Whatever it is I don't want my baby girl to be me and have the same social anxiety that I still struggle with today. And she miraculously isn't. She's got the greatest best friend to be sent off with for comfort. And she's been staring at the school for her entire life waiting to be old enough to go there.  I'm just really excited for her and can't believe we've here already. I feel like we blinked and she's suddenly almost 5. I hope she avoids all the bullies (and isn't one herself) and I hope that she gets the best teacher and I hope that she's the girl with the coolest lunch box and gets 100% on all her spelling tests.



This morning dressed and ready to go! We bought a new dress just for today (told ya I'm way too into this).....she insisted not on summer sandals but her cowgirl boots and not a pink sweater but a purple one and not a pink headband but an aqua one. But it's totally Ava. We're both taking off work early so we can take her to lunch first and then go to the orientation. She's so happy because we're going to sneak her out of daycare while Mason's napping to spend some "just Ava" time.



What happened to the onesies and diaper butt?



Mr Mason - this boy.....love his baseball hat. He even sleeps in his baseball hat! It's too cute!