First day of kindergarten

Emma's first day of kindergarten was yesterday. She was excited and a little nervous, but handled the whole thing like a pro, backed up by a new backpack and lunchbox. So great has her zeal for kindergarten been that she stopped sucking her thumb overnight in the quest to be a big kindergartener.


A friend who's daughter also started kindergarten this week reported that the younger brother was "a little lost soul" without his older sister around. Soren, on the other hand, upon realizing that he had the house to himself while Emma is at school, promptly requested to ride in Emma's car seat and sit in her seat at the kitchen table. Let the sibling analysis begin.

Since Emma is in PM kindergarten, when we drop her off, the AM parents are picking their kids up. With the amount of cameras present yesterday, you would've thought Britney Spears was starting kindergarten yesterday. My personal reaction was a little more depressing, when I realized that I'll be 50 by the time Soren graduates from high school. So begins the Hong family's adventures with public school...