I Didn't Even CRY!!!

Last week was a momentus one for our little family!  Wednesday was Liam's first day of kindergarten <3 I can't believe that he's already off to school, it seems like just yesterday that we brought him home from the hospital... I know,  I know, how much more cliche can you get?  And before I became a parent I would have totally agreed with you, but it's true... time flies by faster than you realize until some milestone comes along to remind you of how much time has passed and how little you've paid attention!

Rowan also started a new phase, he's going to a new daycare now.  And he's going by himself!  It's the first time in his life that he won't spend all day, everyday with his big brother.  I was so concerned about how he was going to handle the big change; I talked with him about it for DAYS ahead of time, making it sound like the best daycare EVER and how lucky he was to get to go there and what a big boy he is now that he's going to daycare by himself.  He was pretty stoked, he even rubbed it in Liam's face a couple of times for good measure!

So the big day comes and Rowan is going to daycare for a whole day all by himself!  Liam hasn't started kindergarted just yet, he has to spend one whole day and part of three more days at the fill in babysitter's by himself.  We're in the car on the way to town and Rowan starts talking about how he's so excited and he's going to play with all the new toys and tell his new "daycare lady" all about what we did on the weekend.  I was feeling pretty good about preparing him and making it a seemless transition for him!  That is until Liam figured out what was going on...

It turns out that I was prepping the wrong kid!  Liam flipped and had a TOTAL meltdown in the back seat!  He started crying and blubbering about missing his little brother and what was he going to do all day without him!  I started trying to calm him down, telling him that he gets to start kindergarten the next day and it's only one day by himself at the fill in sitter... I was concerned that he was going to get Rowan going and that he wouldn't want me to leave him at the new daycare... but once again, I was WAY off base! 

Rowan starts telling Liam "it's okay" and "we'll see each other after Mommy's finished work" and "we can tell each other all about our day when we are driving home tonight"!  It was so cute, in the end it was Rowan that got Liam to stop crying.  And when I dropped him off he had no problem walking right into the daycare and barely even let me hug and kiss him goodbye!

That night when Neil got home Rowan told him "I went to my new babysitters today and I didn't even CRY!!!" It was pretty cute ;-)