First day of school

Today was Austin's first day of kindergarten! He's been looking forward to this day for a while now. And it lived up to the hype.

Last night before we went to bed, Austin sprinkled his ready confetti under both of his pillows. He didn't lay down until we finished reading his book because he didn't want the confetti to start working yet. He finally laid down and looked up at me and asked "when is it going to start working?" He didn't need much help getting to sleep after the day we'd had.

We woke Austin up this morning and he got dressed, made his bed, and ate breakfast. He put on his backpack and wanted to go out to the bus stop at 6:30 a.m. (the bus doesn't come until 7:05 a.m.). We managed to keep him inside until 6:45 a.m.

He met all his friends from the street at the corner. When the bus came, he stood in line behind the other kids to get on. He stopped for a moment before hopping on the bus. When he did get on, he stopped to talk to the bus driver and then found a seat. He waved and smiled really big as he drove away.

Austin had a great day at school. His teacher sent the parents a 10 second video of the kids which really brightened my morning. Austin said that they went to the gym and played with parachutes and played duck-duck-goose. They painted gingerbread men and learned a new song.

There weren't many tears but it was still sad to see him drive away...with a complete stranger...on a bus with no car seat and no seat belt. I know this is only the first time we'll be saying goodbye to him.