My younger daughter, Charlotte, started Junior Kindergarten this morning.
It's hard to believe that she's old enough, and at the same time it feels like we've lived a hundred different lifetimes since she was born. After going through fertility treatments for the second time, who would've thought that we would end up with another baby just 13 months after she was born? She wasn't even two when we left for the United States, and we were back before she turned 3. Now she has yet another younger brother, and in total she's lived in five different houses in her short lifetime.
Charlotte is a sweet, loving girl, but also very shy. She's been waiting very impatiently for the past two weeks while her older sister went to school, for her turn. The first week we did an interview with the teacher. Last week she got to go for one afternoon with some of her classmates, but this morning was the first time that I dropped her off in the Kindergarten yard (AKA "The Pen") and she was mixed in with all of the other kids from all of the K classes, and had to find her teacher, and find the lineup. She just looked so little to be at such a big school. There were, of course, parents EVERYWHERE and I don't think that helped. She seemed completely overwhelmed by all of the people and noise.
That being said, I'm sure that she will be fine. It's actually lunchtime already there, and she's probably talking away with her new friends (one of her classmates is named "Karly", the same as her older sister's BFF, so she thinks that's pretty cool) and gobbling down her lunch so that she can play some more.
I just can't believe how big my baby is getting!
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