Celebrating HIS Last Day of Summer!

This morning was "Meet your Teacher" at Tate's school. Kind of crazy, but his teacher has our same last name. I believe that she is Bryan's Dad's 1st cousins' wife. So that's kind of cool. Tate is SUPER excited about starting Kindergarten! He's not scared at all. Which is GOOD... I wish that I can say that I felt the same way. But if you think about it-Tate is my first child, but for the time being he is also my last. So I am experiencing the emotions that a Mom feels when she sends her first child to school. (sadness, happiness, nervousness, not knowing what to expect...), But to some degree I am also feeling many of the same emotions that a Mom feels when she sends her last child to school (loneliness but at the same time somewhat excited yet not knowing what to do with myself sort of feeling). Yes... I think that pretty much sums up how I'm feeling right now. (I'll just pretend that you ALL wanted to hear the deep thoughts and feelings of Maria-J/K).

So what did we do today to celebrate Tate's last day of Summer? We hung out at the pool all afternoon. 3 full hours of fun, play, and sun. Tate and his best friend Logan (they look like twins) squirted water guns, showed off their swimming skills, and got ALL wrinkly (with raisin fingers as I call them). FUN/FUN/FUN.

Well, tomorrow's the BIG day. Wish us luck.