Dear Bently,

I have been writiting you these letters for a long time. I haven't always been great about keeping up on them, but I've always tried. It's so strange, starting this letter like any other. Because today is your very first day of kindergarten! I can't even believe it's here. It's funny, when you entered preschool at 3, I remember thinking kindergarten was forever away! Even last year I still felt like you were never going to go to kindergarten! But suddenly the day is here! Time is so funny! I seriously feel like you were my baby just yesterday! How can you be in Kindergarten?

You did pretty good. I could tell you were nervous this morning. You kept asking questions about school. You also have this face you do when you are trying not to cry. That face kept cropping up and I hated it! I was banking on you being so excited I wouldn't feel sad!

You had that face on when I left you at your desk. I hope you are okay. I can't believe you will be gone for the next three hours! I miss you!

I love you so much Bently! I love watching you reach these milestones and hate it all at the same time! I may have cried pretty much the whole way home and again while writing you this letter! :( I hope you have a fantastic first day of school and I can't wait to pick you up and hear all about it!

Love,
Mom

P.s. Last night Dad cried with me as we cuddled you while you slept. He told me he was just going to take you to work with him today and keep you instead of letting you go to kindergarten. Part of me was hopeful he would! ;)

Dear Bently,

We are one week from kindergarten! AHHH!!! You are so ready... I am not! I cry about it almost every day. I often get misty just watching you! I worry a lot! I know you'll be fine and love it! I just can't help but worry! I also worry about poor Olivia! She is going to miss you so much!

Today we went to your school and you did kindergarten testing! You did really really good over all! You missed a couple easy ones! I'm sure you were just nervous! So here is what I wrote down!

You could recognize all the number 1-20 except you missed 19.
You knew all your shapes and colors.
You counted from 1-100. That surprised me. When I asked you to count for me a few days ago you didn't make it past 50! ;)
You recognized and named all the capital letters except you missed V.
You recognized and named all the lowercase letters except j and k. (You got the lowercase v which confused me why you missed uppercase. I meant they look the same!)
You knew the sounds all the letters made but you missed Q.

I love you handsome boy! You are so smart! You are going to rock Kindergarten!

Love,
Mom