First Day of Kindergarten

    After counting down the days, going to open house and playground night, following the bus like a secret spy, packing the back pack and the lunch poor Evan had to wait another day for his first day of Kindergarten.  Hurricane Lee brought us tons of rain and enough flooding in our area to close all the schools in our county, Cornell University, Ithaca College and all county roads.  But...the NEXT morning he had some toast for breakfast and we headed out.

 He was pretty nervous and asked Russ to carry him across the street to the bus stop.

 Then we had a few minutes of Dad's amazing ongoing saga of a story, "The Boy Who Could Fly" to keep our minds off what was coming.

Dad helped him onto the bus and into a seat.  I guess he was pretty sad when Russ left him but there was an aid who came right up to be with Evan.  I don't know about Evan but I was definitely in tears as the bus was pulling away.  

He came home happier than he left though and had lots to share about his big day.  We asked lots of questions to keep him talking and sharing information.   Apparently, they went outside for recess THREE times and even got to go on the back playground (bigger and usually for older kids).  The cafeteria was "SO small" and "only had 9 tables". I was very glad to hear this report on the cafeteria as I was concerned it might seem huge and loud to him.  They went to Art and PE.  He said he played cops and robbers with Abe and that Abe was "hard to find".  

We have high hopes for the coming week!  We're so proud of our big Kindergartener!!!