Twas the 1st day of Kindergarten...

and the clothes were laid out (a tradition of course).

Breakfast was made...cinnamon rolls, no doubt!

alright, alright...enough of the rhyming.
{I'm sure you're not sad about that!}

I can't believe how excited {and not scared} Maddie has been about starting Kindergarten. I asked her on the way over if she was scared or excited. She said, "I'm not scared at all, just really excited." She also passed the torch onto Camden, when she turned to him in the car and said, "Now Cam, when Hazel gets sad, you need to help her." Oh, my sweet Maddie. We're gonna miss you. But, first we needed to do some traditional 1st day of school posing.

Poor little girl got a cold sore a few days before...seems to always happen around big events. Still cute, nonetheless. At least she got rid of her Quasimodo eye she had last week from some sort of infection, phew...

Camden wanted in on the fun.

Waiting in line to go into the classroom. She's kinda tall I'm just noticing...

I told her I was going to come in for a minute, and she got all mad at me. Can it really be starting this young?? Fortunately for me, she changed her mind and let me slip in for a picture.

What a monumental day for a mom, sending her first born into the school system for ALL DAY kindergarten. Poor Cam didn't know what to do without her all day. Within the first two hours, I was thinking to myself..."maybe I should find a somewhere to put him into preschool last minute." We'll see how it goes, but for now he thinks I'm his permanent play buddy during the day. Here's to a new stage in life!