running in with our forever best best bests!!!!!
no. i can’t. these two are my favorite things on this whooooole planet, and i just don’t know what to do with it. [!!!!!]
they started with some sweet performances! i know they worked so hard on all this, and they totally nailed it. hand motions and all!
the preschool-wide performance was then followed by emotional torture for the parents of pre-k5 babers. this is where i cannot handle. stop it right now! i mean… i wasn’t surprised, being the one that sent those photos in for the slideshow. but. still.
maddalena!!!!!!!!! this makes me so happy. her teachers have been absolute ANGELS. maddalena has loved every single day in their class, and i could not be more grateful.
a little preview of 13 years from now!!! like… steven and i and all our siblings wore those same caps and gowns [but bigger, obviously] and stood on the same stage as we graduated high school. this is so beyond adorable and totally painful all at once, i don’t even knooooooow how to process.
SO!!!! there we have it! last weekend, our baby girl graduated from her year of pre-k!
this was a year i literally, dramatically dreaded from the time she was born. no lie. i had actual anxiety just knowing the time would someday come where she’d spend the bulk of her day away from me, and i’d be appointed the official twice a day chauffeur. never was i quite ready in the 5 years i mentally prepped for it… but i was relieved when i knew that she was ready. so, i dropped her off on her first day and cried. and worried. all. day. long. and for at least the first few weeks, i didn’t go back home without her, but rocco and i would go do something else for the day. it was a really huge adjustment for me and her both, and we felt the growing pains for a while.
but! she settled in so willingly. she made friends. she learned to trust how much her teachers really, really care for her as an individual. she learned how to handle conflict. how to jump into recess with a group of kiddos. how to sing and dance in praise and worship. she’s learned so much more about bible stories and art projects and reading and writing! she even figured out that she could actually fall asleep at rest time every now and then. 😉 and to see how much she’s loved it… to see how much she’s grown… how much they’ve fed her sweet little heart in that place…
it’s. been. the. best.
not easy. i still pout some days when she’s away, especially because her brother has way more fun when he has his teammate. and i’m definitely ready to take a break from early mornings. and i’m DEFINITELY not ready to do earlier mornings 5 days a week as we’ll be doing come august. but i’m always ready to do what’s best for her. and baby girl looooves her school. she wants to stay there “at least until first grade.” haha.
WE’RE SO PROUD OF YOU, MADDALENA ROSEY!!!!!!!!
now stop growing up. i love you, i love you, i love youuuu!
[and if you think i’m not already consumed by the notion that rocco could potentially ALSO LEAVE ME, then you are wrong. you are the wrongest of wrongs!]
Oh my friend how I feel your pain! I know at the time I never thought i could survive it but here I am. Two kids in. The third may be the end of me though. These photos are so sweet! Congratulations Maddo!!