It’s just a proof.
You know, the grainy picture you get from school with the word PROOF right over the center.
Well, this proof I knew was coming. They told me if was coming. But yet I still wasn’t prepared to see this…
My Big Roo, in a silky, purple gown with a cap sitting perfectly on top of his head.
No, I wasn’t prepared to see my now five-year-old looking so grown up.
He looks so much like me in this picture. The eyes, that smile. I can’t get over it.
I can’t get over that in a few months, he’ll trot off to Kindergarten ready to face a whole new world of cafeterias, school supplies and new friends.
I can’t get over that in a few months, he’ll be “school-aged” and not just a “preschooler.”
I can’t get over this proof.
But life ages us bit by bit, so swimming-through-mud slow that we don’t seem to notice how much we’ve grown until we’re smacked upside the head with something like a birthday. And then we say “oh time has just FLOWN by.”
And it has. But it hasn’t.
I didn’t really see a five-year-old until I saw this proof. Yet now I do. It’s like that stamp PROOF is indeed just that. Proof that Big Roo is just a little older than I realized.
Proof, indeed.
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Twitter: IlinaP
February 28, 2012 at 10:17 am
I can so relate to this. It was hard to send my boys off to kindergarten, and now I can’t believe my oldest is in third grade and writing in cursive and doing math that I can barely manage. Time is a trickster.
BTW, he is adorable! Have you nailed down waiting lists and schools yet?
Twitter: AndreaUpdyke
February 28, 2012 at 10:27 am
Adorable! And I know how you feel even though we are a couple years behind you. School is a time machine.
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Twitter: EverythingEvie
February 28, 2012 at 11:19 am
Oh my goodness Big Roo looks adorable in that cap and gown! But yeah, I feel you. I went through a similar scene with my almost 2-year-old. He had his first hair cut on Saturday and after seeing him all clean cut I suddenly realized: he’s not a baby anymore. He’s a full sized toddler now. I’ll admit it, I cried a little on the drive home. He just looked so grown up to me and I secretely wish we had never cut his baby hair to begin with. Do they really have to grow so quickly??
Twitter: pretty_swell
February 28, 2012 at 11:41 am
Oh wow!
Beautiful post, beautiful picture.
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Twitter: jackirhayes
February 28, 2012 at 6:12 pm
What an absolute cutey! And so grown up. Oh, how I remember that day. Now my son will be reaching the double digits in 2 weeks and when I start to let that sink in I get a little (a lot) emotional and go into a bit of state of denial. And yet, I am loving all the conversations we now have, so much more mature. Unless you caught all the fart stories.
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So so cute
God they get big fast, don’t they?
What a handsome little man he is.
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Twitter: convertiblelife
February 28, 2012 at 9:20 pm
Don’t forget to take tissues to the preschool graduation! I’m so glad I still have one more year of preschool w/ my “baby.” Time drags and then it flies. But I will say that watching them learn to read and spell makes going off to “real school” all worthwhile.
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I got teary eyed just last week when I didn’t get pre-school registration papers for my big boy. Every time I think about kindergarten, I start to cry. I know he’s ready but I’m not.
Twitter: rachael1013
February 28, 2012 at 11:33 pm
I am really glad they did not send a photo of my son like that from preschool. I did cry a lot when I put him on the bus on the first day of Kindergarten. I think I might cry a little every year though.
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Looking like a boy and not a little guy happened overnight at my house. Your guy looks so grown up with the cap on.
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Twitter: KeAnne
February 29, 2012 at 3:44 pm
Oh my, what a big boy! He looks adorable in the cap and gown.
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Twitter: mommyhoodmemos
March 3, 2012 at 9:07 pm
SUCH a cute photo! and you’re right – he DOES look like you. wow!
one of my fave childhood photos is my kindy photo in a cap & gown. adorable. amazing to think that those days are right around the corner for my own children too. weird!!
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We recently found the photo of Zach and Noah when you and I were on maternity leave with our tiny babies. Zach asked who it was and I told him the story (which makes me sad because they were supposed to grow up together, darn you!!!), but also makes me sad because I realized how old they are. No longer these tiny little things we held in our arms. I cannot believe what a little boy Noah is! Love that photo. Miss you guys tons xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo