Austin's Kindergarten Round-Up!

So today was a big day for the Kliegl family!  Austin had Kindergarten round up.  We dropped off Colton and Gavin at Mindy's house and then Austin and I headed to the Hudson Elementary School to drop him off.  We went in the front door and checked in, they gave him a name tag and then we had to stand in the entry way and wait until they called for his color name tag . . . he was one of the purple friends today.  He had been excited all morning!  Once we were there and he started looking around a little bit, I could tell he was getting a little nervous and of course I was about to burst into tears (I cannot believe my baby is going to Kindergarten next year and I can only imagine how I'm going to do on the ACTUAL first day of Kindergarten!).  He held on tight to my hand and when they called his group he asked if I would please come with him.  I told him that I couldn't go and that he needed to go with all the rest of his new friends.  He said okay and started walking away, then he turned back and ran to me for a big hug and told me he loved me.  I told him to have fun and I would be back before he knows it.  Then I walked out of the building and started crying.

I went back to pick him up two and a half hours later and he was so excited to tell me all about it.  The first thing he said was, "Mommy, I love this place!"  I was so happy to hear how much fun he had.  He made three crafts, did an activity, had a snack and got to go out for recess on the playground.  He wanted to show me the playground and also wanted to show me the lockers because next year he will have a locker to put his stuff into.  He was slightly bummed that he wasn't going to have a "secret code" to get in his locker but was otherwise ecstatic!  He was also pumped because for snack they had a cookie and milk but not just any milk . . . CHOCOLATE MILK!  He has never had chocolate milk at school, so this was a huge bonus for him!  Austin and I went out for lunch so he could fill me in on all the details.  It was wonderful to get to spend some time hearing all about his morning!