Kindergarten Daddy

 "Your kindergarten daddy needs a hug."

Last night, my little girl was so excited.  Tomorrow would be her first day of kindergarten.  I didn't think she was going to sleep, so I laid next to her and sang her baby songs.

We sang Designs on You, Close to You and Love Me Do.  We sang Pop Goes the Weasel, This Old Man and London Bridge.  We sang all the verses of Mary Had A Little Lamb.  (I learned them for her.)  We remembered our Baby Suzuki nursery rhymes-- Little Tommy Tucker, Humpty Dumpty and Wee Willy Winkie.  Rose ran out of songs until I prompted her with Mulberry Bush.  She sang her entire school schedule to me which I thought might put her to sleep.  It didn't.

Then we reminisced some more.  That dog we passed around in Baby Suzuki, what was the rhyme?  We didn't quite remember.  (The next morning I was singing "Bow wow wow. Who's dog are thou, I am ....'s dog. Bow, bow wow.") I had been so proud when she remembered her line as a one or two or three year old.

How did school go?  My kid was the one yawning through the Zoom meeting.

The other issue?  Headphones.  When she had the school headphones on, she wouldn't respond back to the teacher.  I took the headphones from her and she was very sad.  "Your kindergarten daddy needs a hug.  This is his first day as a kindergarten daddy."

Remote kindergarten is an adventure.  She is learning a lot.  

She is so far ahead of me at her age.