New School

I am an over thinker and an over planner. I like to think it's one of my charms but probably it's more one of my liabilities. Well Ryan started his new school today. It's a great school and I know other people who have their children there- but change can be hard. Ryan was nervous about it last night- probably because he picked up me being nervous about it. It's hard to see your kid have to do something that might be challenging (meeting lots of new people, finding his place in a new setting, getting a new routine). Going in this morning was hard- he said he wanted to stay home with me and I could see he was a little nervous still. We went into the classroom and he was shy but the teacher being the genius she was showed him the computer in the classroom. He was so excited that the classroom was so similar to his last room that he turned around to me and said "I'm okay now, you can go."
After all my worries he was fine. It's good practice for when he starts kindergarten but it's still hard for me. Every time we go through a transition I see how much Ryan has grown up and changed. I'm glad he is as confident as he is, maybe I should take a cue from him and chill out a bit.