KINDERGARTEN!! YIPPEE!!!!

Austin, at the door of Mrs. Bate's room...

His first project of the day!
Caden, Austin and Mommy - ready for the day!
Austin, Daddy and Caden...let's go!
Austin and his Kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Bates!
A girlfriend sent me this poem the other day, and it's oh so appropriate for this special day!!


He started school one morning,
And he seemed so very small.
As I walked there beside him
In the Kindergarten hall.


And as he took his place beside
the others in the class,
I realized how all too soon
Those first few years can pass.


Remembering, I saw him as
He first learned how to walk.
The words that we alone made out
When he began to talk.


This little boy so much absorbed
In learning how to write.
It seems as though he must have grown
To boyhood overnight.


Oh how I longed to stay with him
And keep him by the hand
To lead him through the places
That he couldn't understand.


But he must have his chance to live,
To work his problems out,
The privilege to grow and learn
What life is all about.


And I must share my little boy
With friends and work and play;
He's not a baby anymore --
He's in Kindergarten today.