I didn't do it....she did it!: Kindergarten Girl!

Yesterday when Rino came in the door after school, I was reminded about how fast time flies. It seems like yesterday that I sent her off on the bus for that first day of school (see My first blog for that picture). Now the school year is almost over. The first day was really hard. I cried all day. I thought I had made a mistake and wondered if I could go back and hold her back a year. She's right on the cut off with a July 28th birthday and I wasn't completely sure I had made the right decision. That whole first week of school I spent time in her room; organizing books, rearranging drawers, vacuuming behind dressers and bookshelves that hadn't been moved since we moved in. I layed in her bed and just wished to start over. For her to be a baby again so I could REALLY take it all in. Not sweat the small stuff. Be a better Mommy. Kindergarten is a hard adjustment for Mommies. It's a strange pull from letting them still be "babies" who watch Dora and PBS cartoons and need their Mommy for everything to a sort of independence, more mature behavior and a sudden interest in Silly Bands and iCarly??? I try to nurture both sides, because I know that's right where she is.

Okay, being a Kindergarten girl is not all sad. :) It comes with making new friends, learning new things, and experiencing life with me not there all the time, for the first time. Yesterday I was reminded that while I miss her terribly during the day, she is off having a blast. Every day she runs in the house so excited to tell me about her day. The door flies open, the backpack goes flying, and she spills her guts on the daily happenings. Usually it starts with "Guess what kind of day I had Mommy"? This little girl had my heart from the very beginning. She is the happiest child I have ever seen. Yesterday I grabbed my camera to capture that happiness and remember what it looked liked when she came home from KINDERGARTEN.