The De Leon's: Kinder Adventure

The big day finally arrived. Vincent is in Kinder.It's truly the next phase of his life, he's no longer in any way a baby. And while he was excited about it, I honestly think it's a bigger deal to the parents. It's such an iconic day that is anticipated from birth. We've been to his school on several occasions and toured it again on Friday for meet the teacher night so it was pretty familiar to him. He's so lucky to be going to school with 3 other boys on our block (I like to call them the San Saba boys) not to mention the other kids in the neighborhood he's know for many years. Another Mom had a water-slide party a few weeks ago and so they all had at least one friend in the class.

Yesterday he walked right in and sat down in the gym to wait for his teacher to arrive. Teri and I said goodbye there, we did not hang around to let his anxiety build or watch other kids/parents cry and then get him riled up too. He's so confident and he just sat down and waited for his day to begin.

It appears the only issue so far is that he didn't carry his lunch box to the cafeteria so the had to eat the school lunch. It was a hamburger and he was happy with it. Although - I've never let him have a hamburger from anywhere except home and Chilis for 5 years to protect him from trashy meat and ecoli. Then on the first day of Kinder he eats a hamburger!

I've also go to clarify why he didn't bring his lunchbox. We have enrolled him in a dual language program so his day is 90% spanish and 10% english. He will learn math in english but all other subjects are in spanish, even reading until 2nd grade. It's educationally risky/adventurous but we're committed to it and scared to death for him at the same time. I'm sure to blog about it in the future! But back to the lunchbox - we taught him the word "lunch" so he'll know what to do.
Can you imagine your teacher not speaking English to you???

So excited for our Kinder Adventure to begin - will keep you all posted on his progress!