Leah Starts School

On August 26, 2015 my little girl finally started Kindergarten. She was SO excited! The only down side with her starting school was that she was assigned morning kindergarten rather than afternoon kindergarten like we were hoping for. Leah is not a morning person (and neither am I) so getting up early every morning did not appeal to her at all. In fact when I took her to meet her teacher, Mrs. Vasquez, the day before school started, she asked Leah if she had any questions for her. And the only thing Leah asked is why she had to go school early in the morning! But we managed to get up anyway and got her off to school just fine. She even took the bus to school on her first day. The bus stop is right outside our house and she has been watching it come and go her whole life. So she was so excited to finally get to ride on it herself. (And in hindsight, having morning kindergarten was great--other than the getting up early part. There were a lot of great things about morning kindergarten and if I could choose again, I would still have her do the morning schedule.) 

A few weeks before school started, Ross read a story to Leah where the main character got to go out for ice cream on the first day of school. So she asked if she could do that too. So after dinner we went to Subzero to get ice cream. We like to go there because our neighbor and the kids' buddy, Riley, works there. And as luck would have it, he was there that night. At Subzero, you choose your flavor of cream and mix-ins and then they use liquid nitrogen to freeze the ice cream right in front of you. The kids think it is so cool. And Riley shows them all the cool things he can do with the liquid nitrogen, like pouring it his hat to make his head smoke, or freezing the gummy bears so that they shatter when you drop them on the floor. It is very yummy ice cream and the kids love all the entertainment from Riley.

At the beginning of the school year I interviewed Leah so that we could remember what she was like at this age. So here's a little about Leah as she starts Kindergarten:
Age: 5 years old
Height: 40 inches
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Foods: Breakfast -- Toast, Lunch -- Chicken dumpling soup, Sandwiches, Dinner -- Shells and Cheese
Favorite TV Shows: Wild Kratts, Cyberchase, Arthur, Odd Squad, Sheriff Callie, Sofia the First, Jake and the Neverland Pirates, Miles from Tomorrowland, Liv & Maddie, 7D, Peg + Cat
Favorite Song: "Rotten to the Core" (from Disney's Descendants), "Like Me" (from Disney's Teen Beach Movie)
Favorite Primary Song: "Nephi's Courage"
Favorite Scripture Story: Nephi gets the plates from Laban
Favorite Thing To Do: Play with friends
Favorite Thing About School: Painting
Friends: Millie Tanner, Ty Hostetter, Parker Brown, McKay Blevins
Favorite Apps: Inside Out Thought Bubbles, the Watch Disney Apps
What She Wants to Be When She Grows Up: A mom
Favorite Animal: Giraffe
Favorite Place To Go: Shaved ice
Favorite Place To Eat: Del Taco
Favorite Book: Junie B. Jones books (series by Barbara Park), Books by Tomie dePaola
Favorite Snack: Milk
Foods She Doesn't Like: Broccoli, Peas
Things She Doesn't Like To Do: Chores
Favorite Dessert: Pie