Kindergarten

Yay for Kindergarten! Sydney had her first day a few weeks ago. She has really enjoyed it so far. She was excited all summer and all of the sudden had this emotional meltdown the night before school was going to start. I kept asking her if she was nervous about school but she insisted that she was NOT nervous about school, she was just mad because her ice cream melted onto her hand. Right. When I took her to school the next day she was also nervous and didn't want me to leave, but then later she just said she was annoyed because of "all those parents standing around taking pictures of us." She's all adjusted now! It didn't take long.
At this same time she was invited to start a Jr. Tops class in gymnastics. It involved taking her twice a week for an hour and a half. I was a little worried that 3 hours of gymnastics every week was a bit much for a 5-year-old but we did it anyways. It seemed she wasn't going to get better in her regular class. There were too many girls and some of them were as old as 9 or 10 so the class had too big of range to work well. Her new class had girls all her age and size and was great, but apparently it was stressing her out. She stopped trying to get better and kept telling the teacher "I can't do it" when they did cartwheels. I started having to convince her to go every time so we finally decided it was time to take a break. Maybe in a couple years she'll want to get back into it. It was probably just too much with kindergarten and 3 times as much gymnastics all at once. I think it's been a relief for all of us actually.