I can't believe how fast Ethan is growing up. Usually when I drop Ethan off at school in the morning I take all the kids and we walk him into the school playground. They have a separate playground for the Kindergarten kids, and usually Cole, Liv, and I will stay until the bell rings for school and that Ethan gets lined up for his class before we leave. Many moms do this, in fact most of them do, but I decided that Ethan needs to start getting ready 1st grade and that means no mom to walk him to class. He will have to make sure he gets where he needs to be all by himself. This whole week I have just been dropping him off in front of the school for him to go into school all by himself. The first time I watched him run onto the playground while I watched from the car, I was so PROUD. He looked like such a big boy. Ethan gets up every morning and showers and gets dressed all by himself, sometimes even before I am awake. Next, he goes downstairs and gets a bowl of cereal, pours the milk, and eats all by himself. Sometimes I feel bad that he doesn't wake me, but when I come downstairs he is so proud and has to show me everything he did by himself that morning. Also, Ethan has been working really hard on learning to read. At his school they have a fun program where the kids earn dog tags for each 25 words they learn to read. The first week Ethan really wanted to pass off his words, but I didn't think he was ready, but he insisted. So I let him try, and he missed two words. He was so sad, but we worked really hard the next week and he passed them off. Now he is so motivated to learn new words and get more dog tags-I just love it!
