Milestones are piling up in the span of a couple weeks here in the Baranko household. First we had Luke's 5th birthday to absorb and now at 2 1/2 our BABY girl is starting school!! Her first day of what will be decades of formalized learning happened. She was so excited to go to school herself, what with how many times she tagged along dropping off and picking up Luke. She announced to everybody all summer that she was going to school too. She is going to the same school as Luke, Kinderhaven Preschool Academy, and she is in the Purple Class that meets Tuesdays and Thursdays in the morning for a couple hours. I dropped her off at school and she was happy as a clam until I went to leave, then she got a little upset. But the teachers distracted her with toys and I was supposed to scram before she turned back around, but I was frozen there watching her walk away from me. It seemed symbolic and I couldn't help the tears from forming. She's growing up! I finally pulled myself away and had a nice little cry in my car before going to work. I'm such a cliche!
Luke also started school on Tuesday and is now in the Red Class. This is his last year of preschool - next year will be Kindergarten! That will be an emotional one for Mom too, I'm sure. He is a pro at school and couldn't wait to get back into the swing of things after a month off of no camp or school. He even wrote his own white board message this year, what a big kid! Red class meets in the afternoons Mon-Thurs, so he never overlaps with Claire. Isolene has a busy day taking and picking up Claire in the morning and then going right back to take and pick up Luke in the afternoon. With only an hour in between, she sometimes packs a picnic lunch and just stays at the park at the school between classes.
Flashback of Luke's first day of preschool two years ago, look at that little guy!
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