Our middle blessing started Kindergarten this year!! She had been waiting patiently to be "big" like Tess for what seems like years. We are thankful she attended summer school during the month of June to get a taste of what going to school every day was going to feel like. She was exhausted and whiny after the first couple of mornings.....difficult to wake up, and then once she was up, she didn't really want to go to anywhere. We spent a few minutes trying to schmooze her into going until we finally broke the news to her that going to school is not a choice, it's the law. You should have seen the size of her big blue eyes when we told her that the police would arrest us if she didn't go to school.
That was the first week, and ever since she has been excited and loving school. Every day we ask her to tell us three things that happened at school. She almost always says "I didn't have to go to the Principal's office!"
Kate is also learning that not all kids handle their emotions the same. One day she came home from school with the story of a boy that put his hands up in fists and growled like a bear when someone touched his toy car. To hear her tell the story, a knock down fight almost happened.
Reading is becoming something she enjoys to do, not just to have stories read to her, but to try and read them herself. JOY! We are constantly helping her sound things out, and spell words. She loves to practice her writing, and her artwork has excelled to include words now.
Kate had her first sleepover right before school started with a preschool friend. The friend slept over at our house first, then Kate got to stay over there. Both nights were a total success. We were so proud of her, but probably not as proud as she was of herself.
Kate is going to do great things this year. She is singing in the Cherub choir again this year, learning new things about God during Sunday School, and is still the best pray-er I know. Next week she will participate in a cheer camp led by the KHS cheerleaders and Golden Girls. Kate has always been our dancer girl and it clearly brings her JOY to shake her booty. Dang if she isn't pretty good at it too. Her emotions are still her worst enemy and we have had to introduce the concept of being a "cry baby" with her. She cries over the silliest of reasons, although to her they seem like life changing events. Recently she was having a really rough evening and I asked her if something was bothering her. It turns out that Tess had gotten in trouble on the bus, and her getting in trouble had embarrassed Kate.....to the point of tears. This same emotional child is also the one that loves to hug me every day when I get home, enjoys making cards and pictures as gifts for people, takes loving care of her stuffed animals, and remembers to say please and thank you better than most adults.
Can't believe she has started school. The first five years of her life have flown by and I worry the next five will as well. The only consolation for her growing up so quickly
is that there are such amazing things in store for our blonde haired blue eyed beauty.
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