The big day has finally arrived! Alex gets to start kindergarten! He has been so excited for weeks and especially since Ashlyn got to start a week earlier, Alex has been itching for his turn. At our school kindergarten starts a week later than the other grades. It is supposed to be for the teachers to be able to do assessments, but I think it is for the moms to ease into the transition easier. Jane and I are really going to miss him (for the little under three hours he is gone), but I am sure the time will fly and I will wonder yet again why Utah is one of the few states that has half-day kindergarten.
Alex gets to walk with his best friend Mason Ludlow. Mason's mom and I are walking behind them and listening to the current conversation about animals and superheros and all the other things these two boys are interested in.
I just keep thinking, "Alex is so ready for this" while hearing from Mason's mom, "I am not ready for this, I have been crying for the past few days."
"Why am I so calm?" I wonder. He just seems so grown up, its like Ashlyn already broke me into this and now I see Alex as this big school boy, reading and thinking through things so intellectually. It just makes sense. He is ready!
A few days before school started, he confided in me that he was a little nervous.
Alex: "I had a dream that Mrs. Bellnap asked me to read a really hard book in front of the class and I didn't know the words. All the kids were laughing at me. Is that how school is Mom?"
Me: "Oh, honey, that won't happen, there will be kids who can't read yet, and they won't laugh at you even if you don't know all the words."
It did make me just a tiny bit nervous that I suddenly can't be there all the time to make sure he isn't laughed at or just to reassure him that he is smart and great and wonderful...well I guess its all part of growing up for me and him. I love you handsome boy, have fun at school!
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