Today marked the end of a major chapter in our child-rearing life. Bryce's last day at Natalie's was pretty typical, aside from the celebratory "wear your jammies" to signify a last day or a birthday. It will be a sad day for every parent that has had Natalie care for their child as she permanently closes her daycare doors in May.
Natalie mentioned that Bryce was particularly cuddly today- I'm not sure if he instinctively knew what was going on or not. Monday will be a true test as he'll be going in virtually cold turkey as I have a program and must be at work all day. Natalie's confident he won't even notice; I'm not so sure.
To celebrate April Fool's day at Kari's school, the kids were supposed to dress silly. I wasn't sure what defined silly, so we went with clothes on backwards, mismatched socks, and some crazy hair-do. She seemed to fit in just fine.
And tonight we honored the day by having breakfast for dinner. Strawberry, banana and chocolate chip pancakes were on the menu. It was quite a hit and both devoured probably close to five pancakes each. Kari and I enjoyed making pancake "sandwiches"- one chocolate chip, one banana, smeared with peanut butter in the middle.
One of the things I've looked forward to the most since the day Bryce was born is the point when these two would be able to play together. They've steadily been playing more and more together for the last nine months or so, but this just really struck a chord with me this evening. Kari is such a caring, gentle and protective big sister. Here, she's taking Bryce out with her to fetch the mail, one of her daily chores, but never letting go of his hand knowing they have to get a bit into the street. She took a brief second to point out an airplane overhead.
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