Who would have thought that in just one week my baby would get to experience two milestones. These two milestones were exciting and emotional (very emotional for the momma) Well on August 27th Lexi officially started Kindergarten. This is something that we have been preparing ourselves for. Even though she is still at her same school it was still a very big deal for her and me. We decided to keep her there because she has been talking about being in Miss Debbie's class for the last two years, her friends that she has been in school with since they were 2 are still there and of course because we absolutely love the school and everything that they have to offer. To help with the excitement Lexi and I made a paper chain to count down the days until Kindergarten started. She loved this. The weekend before school started we went shopping for school clothes and she picked out the outfits she would wear for that first week of school. The night before we packed her lunch and laid out the outfit that she chose. As soon as she went to sleep Eric and I decided to write her a note and make her a little sign. She was so excited when she woke up and saw this. I even snuck a little note into her lunch box (which she insists on having a note EVERYDAY of the week :) ) We got ready for the day, I took some pictures and then we were off. As soon as we pulled into the parking I felt a little anxious for her. She was totally fine and very excited because this is the same place that she has come every week since she was 2 1/2, but for me this was the first day of her whole school "career" They decorated the front with a nice Welcome banner and some colorful balloons. I took a few more pictures of her and then we headed in and straight up to the "big kid" classroom. We hung her backpack on her hook and then went inside and found her name tag and pencil box and where she would be sitting. I snapped a few more pictures and walked her to the play yard where she kissed and hugged me goodbye and then ran off with her friends.
As soon as I picked her up she was telling me all about her day and everything that she learned. I love that she LOVES school and I only hope that she will for the rest of her life. I still love school and I am old (kinda haha) Her favorite thing to do is homework and she loves to read her letter of the day books to us :)
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| She LOVES iCarly and had to have this backpack that is bigger than she is! Haha |
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| She was so excited! |
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| Her backpack hook :) |
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| She looks so grown up! |
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| Her name tag and pencil box...too cute! :) |
Then comes the second milestone... September 1st (not even a whole week after she started kindergarten) she lost her FIRST tooth!! It has been loose since the 4th of July where she claims that the bacon she ate for breakfast made it loose. At that time it barely moved, but over the weeks she kept pushing on it with her tongue and it kept moving to the right. It looked like she had lost a tooth because there was such a big gap from her pushing it. She begged Eric to pull it out for a couple weeks, but he couldn't/didn't want to hurt her and I definitely couldn't do it. On September 1st we went to dinner at La Mexicana and before we got our food Lexi was asking her to dad if he would pull her tooth out when we got home and he just said we'll see...I don't want to hurt you and I don't want you to cry and she insisted that she wouldn't cry. Well we got our food and Lexi takes one bite of beans and out comes the blood...no tooth, just blood. Ewww I know! I hadn't even taken a bite yet. It was still in there and Eric had no choice but to pull it out (it took a good five minutes and the waitresses were looking at us like we were crazy) Good thing we were the ONLY people in there :) She didn't cry at all...just made a couple little noises and out it came! I think I was more nervous than her and I am pretty sure Eric was more nervous than both her and I. We told the waitresses that she had just lost her first tooth and they were so excited for her, it was cute. Lexi and I went to get Frugos to celebrate and then when we got home she wrote the Tooth Fairy a letter and was asleep in no time! She woke up soooo early the next morning and was very excited to find a letter and a special glittery $5 bill from the one and only Tooth Fairy! I had to tell her that the tooth fairy gives a little extra for the first and last tooth;)
