Enter the School Age Years: Two

Two in school! Today Caleb started Kindergarten. As I sat next to the nervous mother of Caleb with a K in the Kindergarten playground, I remember feeling the same way back in August 2010. I don't think I breathed all that day, and didn't feel comfortable with the whole elementary school thing until sometime in November.

But with my number two, my youngest, everything seems... well, easy and painless. In fact even empowering.

It helps that Caleb has the same Kindergarten teacher as Xander, and that we really like her. It also helps that we're no longer spending 40 minutes each morning, and each evening shuttling between elementary and preschool and home. Perhaps, I'll even start exercising again. 

And I didn't read as much into Caleb's silence tonight. He really was too tired to talk about Kindergarten, so very, very tired. But that is a plight of a newly minted Kindergartener.

We have now fully entered the school age years! Onward and upward!