School started! Yippee! This really is happy news for all of us! I may or may not have teared up bringing her in for her first day, but I assure you (as I assured her the night before in anticipation!) they were happy/proud tears at the beginning of a new chapter. Our big girl is really growing up!
That first day, and for the next several days, M preferred to have C & I walk her into the school until the kids were dismissed from the cafeteria. But, soon enough she made a bestie (F) and just yesterday wanted us to just drop her off in the carpool line. She made this big plan of she would walk to the front doors and give us a thumbs up that she had gotten there. It was just about the cutest thing ever watching her exaggerated thumbs up to make sure we saw it and knew she was all good. Today, not even a thumbs up. C remarked that she was too busy talking to her friends. The school bus had just gotten there as well and M saw one of her buddies get off the bus. She said, "Oh hey! There's B. She looks cute today!" The girl talks like she's at least 15, I swear. Also, every time we pick her up. Every. single. time. She is sad because she wants to ride the bus. I know it must be novel and exciting, but after a few rides, she'd be over that I'm sure of it!
M is learning all the SOCIAL stuff that comes along with school. That hidden curriculum stuff that we sped teachers know all about because we have to give "our" kids direct instruction on it. M's sensitive little heart is showing through. She feels crushed if a teacher comments that the class lined up too loudly or if she hasn't gotten a reward sticker just yet. (I know you won't believe this, but she even said the words, "I'll NEVER EVER get a sticker, until my birthday, but then EVERYONE gets a sticker on their birthday. AND my birthday is a hundred and eighty-two twenty days away!") Wouldn't you know that just last Friday she came home with not one, not two, but THREE stickers?! She even shared that when the teacher put a sticker on her folder, she told her teacher "thank you" and her teacher made a big deal about it to the class. Also, on the flip side, it is apparently the BEST DAY EVER if her teacher tells them they were the best behaved class at Chapel. :)
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