My Baby is not a baby anymore, but a preschooler…

 

This week marks a week of milestones for the Winter family.  Yesterday, Daniel (my ten year old) entered grade five.  I cannot believe he is in grade five!  I remember when I was in grade five and it seemed like yesterday.  Now that he is in grade five, he is slowly becoming more independent.  Yesterday, after school, Daniel informs me that now for gym, he has to have gym shorts and shirt.  He’ll be changing from his school clothes to his gym clothes for physical education.  Well, you know what that means…yup…preadolescense.   Kids are now sweating and smelling not so nice now when they participate in hard physical activity.  Unfortunately for Daniel, he started wearing deordarant last year because he was smelling kind of funky.

 

Today was also a milestone for my baby boy.  The baby of the family.  My little Andrew.  Andrew (four years old) had his first day at preschool today.  I thought I would be emotional, but I held it together.  He’s been excited since last week when we bought him a new Cars backpack, Spiderman lunch box, scrap book, new runners, and his very own markers.   But this morning when he woke up, he didn’t want to go.  He told me that he would be very sad and that he didn’t want to leave mommy.  It broke my heart when he told me this, but I said to him that he’s getting older and he’ll have a wonderful time at preschool.  I told him that he was becoming such a big boy now since he’s been standing up to pee! (instead of sitting), he’s been putting his shoes by himself, changing his clothes by himself, etc.  After a few minutes of really thinking about it, Andrew decided that yup, he wanted to go to school!

 

Here are some pictures of Andrew’s new school stuff that he is so proud of!

  Every little boy’s dream: Lightening McQueen backpack!

  Who loves Spiderman?  Andrew loves Spiderman!  Andrew loves Spiderman so much that he has three different Spiderman costumes!

  His stuffed blue monkey named “Snuffy”.  I have no idea why he named him Snuffy, but this little guy was put into Andrew’s backpack to keep him company at school.

 

  Of course brand spanking new runners to wear at school!

 

Now that his backpack was stuffed with all of his stuff, Andrew was ready to go to school.  First, he had to be a big boy and put on his shoes.

   I couldn’t make the picture big enough, but those are Spiderman shoes that he is putting on! lol!

   Joshua (my five year old) sitting and waiting and waiting and waiting for Andrew to put his shoes on.  Joshua is kind of irritated this week because he is the last one to go to school.  He won’t start Kindergarten until Friday (don’t ask me why, it just is according to the school lol).  He kept reasoning to me that he already finished Preschool, so he should be going to Kindergarten before Andrew should go to Preschool.  Joshua basically argues his point to me every day.

Front and back pictures of Andrew wearing Lightening McQueen before going into the van.

Andrew showing his Lightening McQueen backpack…oh yes, Joshua getting into the shot lol

Cousin Kieran waiting to go.  Kieran and Josh are the same age, both five.  And will be going to the same Kindergarten class together.

Andrew waiting for the preschool to open.  I was going to get a shot of Andrew and the preschool building, but Andrew was too excited to get in!

 

Now Andrew is in preschool.  I was going to take more pictures, but I think from the look on Andrew’s face, he’s like hurry up mom and GO!!!  Oh well…

That’s it for now…next will be Joshua’s big day in Kindergarten!