First day of Kindergarten

This morning, about 15 minutes ago, I dropped Megan off for her first day of Kindergarten.  She did amazing!  Before we left the house I sent Sam to get in the car so I could have a couple of minutes alone with her. I was dancing with her and I told her I was going to miss her today and she put her little cheek on mine and snuggled me for several seconds.  Such a sweet little miss to love on me.

When we got to school I parked and got the kids out of the car.  I put Megan's new backpack on her, which she hadn't even seen since I bought it after she went to bed last night.  She was very excited to put it on - it weighs less than the one from last year and she is a little stronger than she was so she walked with it without a problem - no tipping over this time.

She walked with me through the parking lot and right up to the doors where her teachers were waiting.  She went right to her assistant teacher, whom she had just met, and tried to walk into the building.  I got there early today because I had to fill out a form so that they can give Megan her enzyme with her lunch.  I said to Megan "wait a minute I need bye kisses before you can go inside".  I finished the form and she walked up to me and gave me kisses and hugs and Sam and I walked away.  She was standing there the entire time, able to watch us for a good minute or so while we made our way to the car.  I don't know if she was watching us or not, I didn't turn around.  I did see her standing there talking to her teacher when I drove out of the parking lot.

Yesterday we removed all gluten free items from Megan's diet.  Something was up and because we had added so many things in a very short time frame we couldn't know for sure what was causing the 5 hour sessions.  I had a hunch that it might be the new bread since she had some samples the day before we went gluten free and that was her first night up for 5+ hours.  The new bread has molasses in it which a lot of kids react to.

Last night we were hoping she would get some decent sleep, but were expecting her to be awake for 3 hours as that would be her typical progression after having been up for 5+ hours for several nights.  I couldn't sleep so I was able to see her "trigger times" pass without incident.  She woke up at 10:59 and was back asleep by 11 - basically she just made a noise when she rolled over.  She made it past the 11:30 trigger and then the 12:45 trigger and then the 1:30 trigger and then woke up a few minutes after 4a.  She got 9 hours and 15 minutes of solid sleep before she woke up.  She may have gone back to sleep for a little bit and then woke up again at 6a.  She was playing so Will went back to sleep and then she started crying again at 6a which means she could've dosed off again and woken back up.

Aside from the 7 hour thing my biggest concern for her leading up to today was that she was going to be up all night and then super tired when she finally woke up and have a rough day because of it.

NOTES: b-1 IC, pro, oil, l-1 IC at school, d-1 IC; CST, adjustment