Gracie's First Day of Kindergarten!

Today was a BIG day! It was Gracie's first day of Kindergarten!  We have been excited for this for awhile now.  This was an even bigger day than starting preschool because now we are at a big school!  We had our dress picked out for some time now and even Evie, who wants to go to school, got a new one too. 

Before we left though, we had to take pictures.  My mom always took pictures of us everyday on the first day of school.  Gracie was ready to roll.

I wanted to make this and plan to do it every year.  I will have her write her name, include what grade she's going in, the date of the first day, and what she wants to be when she grows up! 

Here are the proud parents of a kindergartner!

And the proud grandparents. Yes, they came over this morning too!

But moment came when it was time to leave. Our backpack was packed with our supplies and we headed out on our way.  We dropped the little ones off at the babysitters.....

Then arrived at school with a box of munchkins.  And a large iced coconut coffee for mommy!

We headed down the hallway to hang out in mommy's classroom and wait for the bell to ring.

This is Gracie's kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Traina.  She is fabulous and we are so excited to be working with her this year!  (I actually taught her son in 3rd grade and now he is a sophomore?)

I won't lie...I was so excited for Gracie that I paraded her around school and announced how proud I was of her and how excited she was.  We even stopped to pose with our principal Mrs. Vershay and assistant principal Mrs. Markowski.

One last picture with Mommy before heading off to the gym to join her new kindergarten class.

 I got another teacher to cover my kids as they were coming in so I could get Gracie all lined up. 

She proudly joined her new classmates and already met a new girl also named Grace.

All the parents were waiting in the gym until the kids headed off for the classroom and they were all taking pictures so I fit right in.

Here they are getting ready to go.

And there they go, off to start thier new adventures in Kindergarten.

I saw Gracie breifly walking through the halls as Mrs. Traina was taking them on a tour of the school.  They were walking with their "ducktails."  I waved at her and she smiled and waved back.

After school, I ran down to catch her in the hallway as she walked out. I asked her if she had a good day and she said she did. I gave her another kiss and that was it. 

Daddy met her outside to pick her up from her first day.  The kids have to be dismissed by number.

She was excited to have Daddy come and pick her up. He was taking her to lunch at Culvers to seh could get a grilled cheese.

Gracie told all of us that she had fun at school.  We know that she sits at the blue table.  She was the first to hang up her backpack in her cubby.  She really wanted to play with the kitchen set today but didn't get the chance. She also talked about how she made one new friend today but she doesn't know her name.

Here she is posing in front of her new school!

It's not just "mommy's school" anymore!

She posed with of the murals at the front of school.

I can't believe that she is my big kindergarten girl already!

I am so proud of her!  She is excited to go back tomorrow and came home today and insisted she do her "homework." She didn't have any but she did have this in her folder.  It's what she did today!

Way to go Gracie Girl!  I am so proud of you!