Ben & Anna Johnson

(Best Dad EVER!!)

Ben Took Max to his first day of Kindergarten and sent me the Play by play.... ok we got to the school at about 7:30 (so 5 min to get there), it was pretty busy in the parking lot as I expected, but I saw some empty spaces from the main road. Of course you have to drive up by the school to get to them, and alot of people cross at the cross walk in front of the main entrance, so we had to wait a while. Finally got parked at 7:35 (bell rings at 7:40). Max was fairly quiet through all of this, but asked several times when he would get to ride the bus to school. The halls were PACKED with kids, I guess you'd expect that but it was so much more little kids than was there at orientation, and way less adults. There was a stream of probably pre-k girls in a line coming from the direction of the cafeteria and going down our hallway, so we had to wait for kind of a gap before we could even get in there. As were were going by the 1st grade class rooms I noticed a bunch of boys with shirts untucked, so I felt better about that. We got to his room and the teacher greeted us, asked me his name. She was happy to see supplies, think we might have been one of the only ones to bring any today. She had me put that bag on the back table and I saw his backup clothes in there. sShe had me put those in his back pack. Then she asked him if he had a lunch box and showed him where he'd put it. So we put his bag up there. All this time I'm still braced for the crying/don't make me stay/etc. She asks him to go find his desk and he just walks and goes straight to his seat. I missed my chance for a hug but didn't want to mess anything up. I had to quickly decide if I should poof/disappear or wait and wave bye. I took the chance and waited for him to turn around, I waved, he waved back and said "bye daddy". Then I left and didn't hear an fuss as I walked away. 8:31 AM