Kylie As A Kindergartener

It's been a while since I have talked about my sweet first born. I spend so much time with Riles that I feel a little left out of my new Kindergartener's life. Especially when I hear her talking with her best friend Katelyn about friends at school or even singing a new song that they learned at school. I have to say that holding Kylie back one year was one of the best decisions that we ever made. Not only did Sunshine School and Tracey teach her how to read, write, tell time and so much more, she is thriving in her class at school......maybe a little too much.

For the first month of school, I couldn't get Kylie nor Katelyn to talk. The car was way too quiet and they just wanted to sit in the living room silently or bug me to tell them what to do. Kylie would just go to her room and play with her Barbies while Katelyn would sit in a chair and stare at me. It was really a miserable time and I wondered if they would ever mesh with each other and it scared me to know that they might do this same thing with other girls in the class.

Here we are at the end of October and they both had to be put in time out last week....several times. Kylie for sassing back at me and Katelyn for tackling Kylie in the hall. I am NOT kidding. They are constantly giggling and talking loud, running around the house, or play fighting. I smile when I feel that they are getting on my nerves because I remember that first month! They went from one spectrum to the opposite spectrum. Kinda cool if you are the parent of a shy child!

There are positives and negatives to this new Kylie. One thing she has discovered is boys. Alan and I were wondering why she gave up bows and Disney Princesses. She wants to dress as plain as possible and wants her hair down at all times. She fights me about wearing skirts and tights...I will always win this battle! We just discovered why she has such strong opinions on these things when last night it became apparent.

Me: Kylie, why didn't you want to wear that shirt with the buttons on it. You loved it when Nana bought it for you.

Kylie: I just don't. The boys don't like things like that.

Me: (Dumbfounded) What??? What are you talking about? What boys???

Kylie: Just a boy in my class.

Me: What's his name?

Kylie: (silence)

Me: Kylie, tell me his name or I will come up to the school, watch you when you are with your class, find out who it is and talk to him!!

Kylie: Ryan. Mommy, don't say anything to Daddy. He will tease me.

So when I told Alan about it, and he swore not to say anything to her, we were astounded. What is up with girls crushing on boys (I borrowed that from Kaylee) at this age? I am not ready for my child to fall into puppy love. Is it too late to home school?

Later when I was tucking Kylie into bed we had another talk.

Me: Kylie, why is it that you don't like Disney Princesses anymore? Did the boys say something about them?

Kylie: Yeah. The boys think they are silly. And, they don't like make-up OR pierced ears!

This is when I started the do your own thing speech and how boys are to ONLY be our friends. Alan went to her class today and said that she was the only girl sitting at a table full of boys and having a ball. When I asked her about it, she said that the other girl that sits at that table was absent today and that she has assigned seats!! I may be old-fashioned but I think that if it were up to her, she would rather sit at a table with all her girl friends. After all, I know all her girl friends' names and a little about each of them. And that's the way it should be in Kindergarten!