kindergarten: post-game

we (she) did it! she is now an o-fish-al kindergartener!  the boys and i ran errands all morning and went to the 'playland' in the afternoon until we had to go pick her back up from school. what was the first thing out of her mouth about the day? (aside from "hi, mom") "i got my school supplies today!  i got scissors and a glue stick and crayons!"

so i told her to get into her seat so that other kids could get picked up (we were in the car line since i had three sleeping boys in the van)!  once she got all settled and buckled, she told me about her day.  it sounds like it was a great one too.  besides the school supplies (the school provides them instead of everyone buying their own you have to write them a check), she had music class, recess twice, lunch, book time and did some coloring and gluing.

she is already looking forward to music class next week when she can actually play and instrument (or so she was told).  she said that recess was fun.  i asked if she played with other kids and she said, "yes, but they didn't know that i was playing with them". 

she didn't get to eat most of her lunch at school so she had it for snack when we got home.  it sounds like lunch was pretty exciting too and she was already telling me how to make her lunch better for tomorrow  (she didn't like that her frozen yogurt stick had melted and was "just yogurt").

after reading a friend's blog saying that her daughter was tired of talking about her day by the time her dad got home, i decided that we should try to call matt while she was still excited.  that worked out well and he got to hear some of the stories she had told me.  and then we called nana who she was able to talk with quite a while.  i asked if she would talk to grandma now but she was starting to get tired of talking about it and asked if she could just tell her a few things.  it worked out that grandma didn't answer.

to complete her 'special day', i made one of her favorite dinners - "snack dinner".  i basically make a bunch of finger foods and lay it out on the table so that they can help themselves.  i like it because it is easy and requires little prep or clean-up.  they like it because it is "fun".

just to milk her 'special day' a little more, madelyn asked if she could have a donut "since it is my special day".  we agreed that she could.

i don't think she could have had a more perfect first day of school.  can't wait to see what tomorrow holds!  love.