I can’t believe it – nearly 6 years ago to the day, I held my little girl in my arms for the first time and today – she’s off to kindergarten.

People always say this – so much that it just seems cliche to repeat it – but time really does go by much too quickly (“before you know it she’ll be all grown up”, “they grow up right in front of you”… I could go on). And so as I dropped her off today, it wasn’t kindergarten I was thinking about, in my head I was fast-forwarding 13 years to when I have to drop her off at college and I just can’t bear the thought.

But for now I just have to relish the fact that my little girl walked into Kindergarten without clinging to my leg, she fought back the tears that were welling up in her eyes, and she ran out to me at the end of the day with a smile on her face (although she declared – “It was long”). I think she was stronger than I, I was grateful for sunglasses and couldn’t even voice the little prayer I wanted to because I knew my emotions would be too transparent. It’s surprising how much this tugged on my heart strings.

But look at this face – wouldn’t you want this little ball of personality hanging around you all day too?

I asked Cailee to pose, by the way, and this is what I got. (No doubt she’ll live to regret these when they show back up in some graduation slideshows many years in the future, ah the joys of having a photographer enthusiast for a mommy).

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