This (above) is what my daughter said last night when we tried to take her home after the looping meeting. After the teachers talked about looping (sounds all good to me!) with the parents, we had a chance to see her classroom and the kids got to spend some time in their new classroom finding their desk, locating their coat cubbies and getting to know one another.

My shy leg-clinger of last year is long gone. Kelly jumped right into playing with the kids, first helping build a block house and then helping the boys put together a wooden train track. Never did she look back to see what her Dad & I were doing.

She's a confident, gregarious, independent and happy girl. "Mission accomplished," I thought.

Tomorrow, we ride the big yellow school bus together for a 1/2 day of Kindergarten orientation.

Here's a pix of Kelly on our way to the school last night -- looking pensive and a little scared -- holding the picture she made for her new teacher. (Dan accused me of trying to create a suck-up on day 1...and it wasn't even day 1). :-)