First Day of Kindergarten...the real post

Parker was so excited about kindergarten starting today that when i got home from bootcamp at 6:45am he was already dressed and ready to go. After breakfast, I asked him to help make his lunch. I think I'm gonna do that every day. I prepared the snacks for the class (I signed up the first week to get it over with and I figured expectations would be low.)

We walked Parker over around 8 and it was very sweet to see all the neighborhood kids walking to school. He and the girls played on the playground for a bit and then lined up. We walked him into his classroom and were quite disappointed that the room was a mess. The teacher who missed orientation last week "due to a death in the family" had apparently not really done anything to prep the room. The cubbies still had last year's names, her desk was not visible through the mess, the paint was all dried up and unusable, and everything was chaotic.

We kissed him goodbye and took off (the first parents to do).

We came to pick him up at 1:10 and they were all waiting to be excused on the rug. The teacher said he did fabulous and was quite motivated. They made crowns and Parker put shapes, odd and even numbers, as well as other related things on it. He seemed really happy about the whole day and told us in detail what happened when. Except for the totally unready classroom, it was a good day.