Kindergarten

Wow...Connor started Kindergarten this week. It's amazing how fast time goes by. People always tell you how fast it goes, but no one actually believes them until you experience it for yourself. I vividly remember the day that he was born. I had to be to the hospital by 6 am to be induced...low and behold, I could hardly sleep the night before! I woke up, showered, made sure I had all of my stuff and off we went. I could barely believe that we were leaving the house that morning to have our baby. It was so surreal. I got to the hospital, they admitted me and I got into my "lovely" gown! My pitocin was started, and the fun began! Mom showed up around 9 am or so and we hung out for awhile. I don't remember what time it was when I asked for my epidural, but I do remember that I needed it, badly! It must have been around noon or so because a few hours later Connor was born. The epidural was causing me to itch and prior to the epidural I was involuntarily shaking because of the pain. It was crazy. It didn't scare me though, because somehow I knew it was normal. Anyways, around 3:30pm I started pushing, and 4 pushes later, he was out. It was extremely easy. Not like I envisioned. Next thing I knew he was on my chest and I was talking to him telling him it was all ok, because he was with me now. I was thrilled when all it took at that moment to get him to stop crying was hearing my voice. It was a miracle. The moment I would stop talking to him, he would start up again. I had never felt so special in my entire life. This ceased to work after a few hours, but those first few were awesome!!

Now he is in Kindergarten. It's beyond crazy! He had his little backpack with all of his supplies and he was rarin' to go! And so far he loves it, thank God! I'm sure one day he won't think it is quite so cool, but for now I'm happy that he likes it. Today is his 3rd day and he still wanted me to walk him to his class, but I'm hoping next week he will be brave enough to go at it alone. But if not, I'm happy walking him for now. I'm sure now that he is in school, he won't think he needs me quite as much. Which will be both good and bad. Maybe not bad, but sad. I guess I still have another one to need me and hopefully a baby soon. So I won't be totally useless!!!