Moving up to the Primary Program

  Life is so busy around here. It feels like both our girls are growing up so fast. Harper is officially 6 months old today and Kennedy is only 2 months away from turning 3. Where has the time gone?! I knew the day was coming when Kennedy could no longer stay in the Toddler Program at Montessori, I just didn't think the time would come so quickly. We were informed that Kennedy would be moving up  to the Primary Program soon. I didn't think I would have so many emotions about it. I know she is completely ready to go, but that also means she is no longer my little baby! Its amazing to see her growth in Montessori over the last year. She is by far the smartest (almost) 3 year old I know :) She knows how to count to 25, she knows all her ABC's (minus a few she places in the wrong spot), knows all of her colors and shapes, she can spell her name, and we are working on tracing and writing it now. She knows the difference between right and left, and now we are working on learning her phone number and tying shoe laces. She completely reasons with you like a 10 year old (I often have to remind myself she is only 3). We do a lot of Kumon work with her at home and do arts and crafts everyday.
   I am excited for her to move to Primary class, but so sad that she is leaving the Toddler Program and leaving that part of her little life behind. I often go and observe her in her classroom its amazing she is not this tiny little girl always sitting close to one of her teachers anymore. She has become so independent. She is always painting or working on some type of work on her own. She knows all of her "friends" names in her class and is so careful to observe everyone around her. She is always helping her friends in class (maybe even bossing them around a little bit). She has a scary ability to remember anything and everything. Pretty sure she may have a photographic memory, she is able to recite anything you read to her.  I am a little afraid when she actually gets to kindergarten how bored she will actually be......
  I look at her with such amazement and know for certain that we are doing something right. She is so caring, we are often told what a well behaved and well mannered child we have (which makes us feel good!), she loves to love and be loved, she doesn't like to disappoint you, and loves to make you smile and laugh. She has become the best big sister ever. She belts out singing to the top of her lungs, "Hapu Avigail" Harper Abigail when her sister is crying. She loves to crawl on the ground and laugh with her sister. These are the moments to me that are priceless.
   Maybe its me having some separation anxiety realizing the days and years are only going to pass by faster and faster. I want her to stay forever my baby. I want her to stay this sweet little girl that looks at me with huge crystal blue eyes and calls me "momma". Who rubs my face every night when we read books together and tells me how pretty I am and how much she loves me. I want her to stay this little girl who loves to give me Eskimo kisses, and giggles uncontrollably with butterfly kisses. I am completely and undeniably so in love with both of my girls. There is no greater blessing or joy in life than to have those two little angels call me "momma".
    I often wonder what Kennedy will want to do in life as she gets older, for now and the last 6 months she says she is going to be a "sturgeon" (Surgeon), which may very well be, her doctor kit is one of her current favorites. Except she refuses to use her plastic stethoscope and uses our real ones. Whatever she chooses to do in life, I know she will do it with great passion. I am excited to watch her in this next phase of her life she is about to enter, but its leaving me with all sorts of mixed emotions. I know she is only moving up to primary class, and I can only imagine what I will be like when she actually gets to kindergarten (an emotional wreck I am sure) I am not sure how I feel about this....
    I am so blessed and thankful that we are able to send her to Montessori and give her a good start on education. I think the way she learns there, and the independence she is given will help further her along in life. I am so thankful for her teachers Liana and Kim who have loved her the entire time she has been in their class. I am sure she will excel just as much, and be loved in her new class.