I never imagined that I would be that parent crying as I dropped my kid off for a first day of school. I think between the move and late start last year I was so happy to get Ethan off to school, it never occured to me that he was getting bigger and we would miss him during the day. Well not so this year! We took the 2 block walk to school this week and we were hardly out of the house before I looked over at him with his new backpack on and realized how tall he had gotten this summer and I was all misty eyed. I was wiping tears at the end of the first block! He looked so grown up in his uniform this year and he was so excited. Somewhere along the walk he said, "Mom, my chest hurts." I was all worried until he finished up the statement with "I think it is because my heart is beating so much because I am so excited!" I then proceeded to tear back up at that point and then had to hide it from a few other Moms who were walking their kids to school. So here are pics of our big morning. Deryck will pick him up at 2:15 this afternoon since he missed "Meet-n-Greet" day with Mrs. Mineshima.
