The first to fly.

My oldest son flew out of the nest today

Pre-k is just up the road but it seems so far away

He has been expanding his wings and growing his mind for this day, for today.

The day when he will go to school and all of those things, the manners, the kind words, the abc's, the pencil holding skills, the scissor cutting practice, the paper folding lessons, the impromptu field trips, the life lessons on sharing, the importance of expressing himself in a healthy way, the ability to be who he is without fearing what others will think, today is the day when all of that is put to the test.

I pray (oh I PRAY!) that he will soar throughout the day and pass today's test, 

and the tests of all the days that lie ahead of him.

I sent my little boy off to school and I tried to hold back all of my fears and all of my tears.

I tried to speak only positive, encouraging and loving things.

I tried my best and now I pray that he will try his best.  

He's such a little cheese ball.  I pray that he has an excellent day and even at the very young age of 4 (and a half!) he will be an example to the other children in his class and to his teacher and that he will always show them the love of Christ.

As I'm sitting here typing this and drinking my coffee with only two children in the house (and my wonderful husband!), it already seems odd to be one-less during the day but I have peace, a peace that I didn't think I would have so early into the day .. silly me for not trusting God fully with every emotion and everything that comes my way .. even the mamma blues when my baby boy big boy heads to school. 

Nothing is too small (or too silly) for God's peace!

Happy first day of school Leonidas, we love you!

I will update this post with more photos from his first day in a few days because I was awesome enough to forget our memory card at home (and didn't realize it until I was trying to upload the photos) so I was shooting blanks all morning long!!  

Just something to laugh about later on!  

I added some photos of us picking Nidas up from his first day of school!  He drove his dune racer to and from school on the first day!!  Jared was in charge of the photos and it was SO hot AND I forgot to snatch the camera for a few photos of him and Nidas ..