I'm really going to miss her...

My little super star Avie has started school....

Two weeks ago now and five days before she turned 5, my big girl confidently walked through the gates to "big" school.....the school she will be at for the next 7 years and the one that her little sister will join her at in 3 years time (gulp!).

She only knew one little girl at the school, who has been a friend of hers since birth having been born only 3 days apart...but who she is not particularly best buddies with.  So in effect she had no comfort blanket - she was going in with a room full of strangers.  And being the sensitive little soul that she is, I foresaw nervousness in the days running up to starting, tears at the moment we would be separated and a battle getting her to go every morning, especially after the first 2 weeks when the full days started.

BUT I couldn't have been more wrong!  My little sweet thing, turned into a confident excited big girl the second we walked into "her" school.  And I couldn't be more proud of her!

All summer I have caught myself looking at her thinking she was too young to be starting school, she was going to be swallowed up and was losing something almost, by starting so young (and I realise she has been home an extra year than she would have been had she come on her due date of 30th aug!)  But now in her uniform, when she runs out of school struggling to carry her coat, book bag, lunch box, drink, and the various toys she has taken (much to the teachers' delight i'm sure!) and she greets me with such a beaming smile, I know she is ready.

And my other littler super star is getting used to the fact that her playmate is gone for most of the day.  She is realising that she has more one on one time with mummy now and that she has free reign of all of her big sister's toys!!