Kindergarten!

 Jayna started Kindergarten on her 5th birthday! Seriously, she could not have had a better day! Well actually maybe it could have been a little bit better if she had taken the bus that day, but Gibb and I drove her instead. :) She was so excited and so ready to start school. Her teacher is Madame Diane, and she is fantastic! I think she'll be really good for Jayna. She told me her favourite thing from the first day of school was getting Happy Birthday sung to her in French and getting a birthday pencil.

When I brought her backpack up from the basement she hugged it and said she had missed it so much, haha!

Jayna's doing French Immersion and she was so excited that she already learned how to speak French on the first day. She can say Bonjour, Au revoir, Je m'appelle Jayna and a few colours and other random words. One night Kepler wasn't listening and before I could even start counting Jayna started counting to 3 in French.

I was pretty much on the verge of tears all morning, but I was holding it together pretty good. And then when we were giving her hugs good-bye she said "I'm going to miss you mommy". I had to book it out of her classroom because I totally lost it and I was bawling. I told Gibb on the way home that I wanted to start homeschooling. I'm so not ready for my little girl to go to school every day!

The next day Jayna got to ride the bus, the excitement was just never ending that week! Once again I was on the verge of tears, but kept them in until she drove away, and then totally lost it again. 

I thought she might be nervous to get on the bus by herself, but she was just loving every second! She waved to me and Kepler with a huge grin all the way down the street.

Since my mom is here I thought that it would be nice to be able to take Jayna to the bus without bringing the other kids along. But Jayna and Kepler had other plans. Jayna insisted that Kepler had to come see her get on the bus and say bye to her and wave to her, she's a little bit sentimental like her mom. And of course Kepler is always up for tagging along, these 2 really are best buddies!

I thought that Kepler would be sad and missing Jayna all morning, but he was living it up! His first order of business was to play with all her toys that she never lets him touch. Then when I told him it was time to go pick her up he said "No I want to go play with her baby again." Haha! He's definitely taking advantage of having the spotlight for once.

 I just couldn't resist taking pictures of her every day!

Jayna is loving every minute of Kindergarten and her teacher said that she's adjusting and doing really well. I have mixed feelings, it's been way harder than I thought to send her off to school every day. I miss her all morning, the house feels so different without her here. Now that she's started school, 5 years doesn't seem like enough time to have her all to myself, it went by so fast! *Sigh*, it's been such an emotional week for me. I don't know if it's just me being really sentimental, or baby hormones still raging...but I may or may not have cried every time she drove away on the bus last week. And I may or may not have cried again just writing this post.

So one week down and 13 more years to go... ;)