Today was also her first day at SCHOOL! (yes, she did go with socks and shoes, eventually)She's been so excited about learning her ABCs and seeing Josh go off on the buss. So we decided to enroll her and thought we'd start slow, and see how we get on.
Well, first off the teachers refused to let us sit at the back of the class. So we took her down for the morning only today, or so we thought. When we got there the whole kindergarten calss was waiting for us (opps, we were a little late for school!) Well her teacher Mr. Young met us, said Hi to her. She smiled, said HI! back and off they went! I barely had a second to give her a hug good-bye! It happened all so fast! She was off walking down the hallway chatting away to Mr. Young! I'm sure she was telling him (in mandarin) that it was her birthday today and she was 5! I, on the other hand, choked back tears and was an emotional-mess the whole day! No wonder the teachers didn't want me in the back of the class!
So, we kept coming back to school every couple hours to check-in on her and she was doing fine! Having fun, doing Valentine's crafts, eating lunch, playing house!
In between checking-in, Robin and I had coffee, then did Hannah and Josh's Soccer registration, then went grocery shopping and finally ran out of things to do in Rockland so went home for a bit. Robin finished making chocolate icing and iced the chocolate birthday cake he'd made for Hannah from scratch. I had a nap! I was emotionally exhausted! Then we went back for the fourth time and picked her up from her first day of school!
She was happy to see us (Josh came too, he was excited to see how her first day was as well, they have different schedules, so he didn't see her at all during the day). She proudly showed us her NEW SCHOOL Agenda, her Valentine Bag and all the valentines inside, her valentine's craft AND her LIBRARY BOOK. She was quite happy about her book! She loves books.
When we got home her and Josh decorated her birthday cake. At this point she was getting VERY excited, jumping around and making jokes that she was turning 7,8,9,10 years old! I said, "NO, Hannah's yi sui! One year old!" She laughed and said NO she was 10 years old! Shir sui!
Hannah's cousins then called from England to wish her Happy Birthday!! Hannah was too shy to talk on the phone, but was very interested to see their photos and loved all the stickers on Sophie and Cicley's card! Sophie and Cicley, she put your photo up beside her bed! :-)
After supper we sang Happy Birthday (and she's just discovered the hilarity of PeePee... so she sang "Happy Birthday Pee Pee!" Is "Peepee" a universal joke among all children??!)
Giving Josh a quick hug!
Robin, Hannah and Josh had a Birthday Train around the kitchen/livingroom. I was laughing so hard, I ran and grabbed the camera.
So, it was a good day I think today! Our little girl is 5!!
