Lynley's Last Day (Catching Up During a BIG Week...Part 3)

This week has been a tad emotional for this momma.  First, Myla turned two!!  She is no baby anymore and she blows my mind every day by how big she is getting.  Then, to prove yet again how fast time flies, today was Lynley's very last day of preschool.
It didn't hit me at first.  Daddy and I went to her morning class program and it was just so fun to see her playing with her friends, getting her certificate and giving her wonderful teacher the gifts she had worked so hard to finish just right.  (Lynley made 2 necklaces for Mrs. Clinger.)  It was sweet to see her giving hugs, taking pictures with friends and sharing snacks with her table.  It was just a precious thing to see.
This afternoon we went back to her classroom to see her enrichment class receive certificates.  Myla got to go with us and Lynley was so proud to introduce her little sister to all the helpers, her teachers and the school "principal."  We watched the girls play and I thought about how in just a short time - only one more year- Myla would be walking down the same halls with these same amazing teachers, bringing home the class stuffed animal and coming to the car with smiles and stories from her days at school.
Certificates were handed out, hugs were given, bags were filled with completed masterpieces that had been hanging on the walls and lunch boxes were pulled out from cubbies one last time before summer officially started.  And as the four of us began to walk down the hallway toward the front door, this momma remembered the first time Lynley jumped out of the car filled with excitement to start her school and meet her teacher.  I thought about the times she begged to go to lunch bunch, the many days she came home talking about a new boyfriend and the fascination and pure enjoyment that could be read on her face after she'd learned something new about a different country or learned to spell a new word.
We stopped briefly to talk with Lynley's teacher from her 3 year old class two years ago.  Then, as we were almost to that door I had to take a minute.  Lynley was done with preschool.  She has grown in more ways than I can count in the 3 years she spent walking up and down those halls.  I shake my head in amazement and disbelief to realize that Lynley is now a Kindergartner!!  I am so proud of the beautiful (both inside and out), caring and smart young darling that she is becoming!  I am so excited (and truthfully a bit anxious) to see what this next adventure as a kindergartner is going to bring!!!