How Time Flies

I'm still finding it hard to believe, but Colin will be entering kindergarten this August. He'll be 5 years old in just two months.

The other day, we went to Kindergarten Round-up at the elementary school in Wylie. Although we live in St. Paul, we are in the Wylie school district. The mascot at the school is the Bulldogs, but I've always wondered why Wylie goes with mascots like the Pirates and Bulldogs. Why can't they be the Wylie Coyotes?? That would be too funny...

We can't quite determine Colin's feelings about going to kindergarten. He currently goes to Mom's Day Out twice a week, which he really loves. I think he's more concerned about losing his current friends in Mom's Day Out than he is excited about his new school. The first thing he told the teachers during Round-up was his name and then he quickly advised them, "I'm going to come to this school, but not until August." He has expressed concern several times over the past few weeks about not getting to see his current friends anymore, which is endearing. Tammy tries to be sensitive about his feelings, but I just tell him to suck it up, that's the way life is, get over it! Just kidding.

Of course, he'll be just fine. He always adjusts so well to change, and although he didn't want to go inside at first, once he was inside and saw the library he was just fine. He loves books and thoroughly enjoys reading so much, that I think this will be his favorite thing about school. He's been to the public library many times, but who knew there were libraries in the school! Also, they have a really cool mural painted on the wall, with numerous recognizable dogs painted - Pluto, Scooby Doo, Lassie and Lady and the Tramp.

Also we saw several other kids he knows - Adam from playgroup, and Dylan who lives across the street. There are four kindergarten teachers, so will be interesting to see if either of them end up in his class.