My baby girl is all grown up! I'm just kidding. I'm not that mom. Hey guys, I'm Wendy Valencia and if you are new to my channel, please go ahead and click that big old red subscribe button down below and then click that bell notification icon so you will be alerted every time I upload. So is Malina's Stardom Kindergarten and I'm kind of a wreck and it'll be fun to watch the fall out. Some of you noticed that I have previously referenced Malina being in Kindergarten and then I have also mentioned that she is starting Kindergarten this year and the truth is Malina is repeating Kindergarten sort of. Malina was in a private preschool for the last couple of years and she completed their pre-Kindergarten program in one year and the school decided she needed to start Kindergarten and we said that was fine. We never had any intention of having her go directly into first grade because by Fairfax County regulations, she was not old enough to start Kindergarten when the private school started her. That Malina's birthday is in October and the cutoff date for Kindergarten was September, the end of September. So she was a few days shy of meeting it for starting Kindergarten last year and so we went ahead and let her register for Kindergarten in the private school knowing full well that she would probably be repeating Kindergarten. We have explained it to her by saying that preschool, where she was before, was preschool Kindergarten and now she's going into big girl real Kindergarten. Here's the reason we decided to do this. She's like me. I'm really bossy. It's not the best treat to have but it is a treat that she has but she also is very sensitive and very kind. She's really at opposite ends of the spectrum in a lot of ways and so what we decided is that we could teach her the difference between right and wrong and the way you treat people versus how people treat you. And so we decided that if she were a little older starting school that she would be more of a leader and she is definitely a leader. She would be more helpful and kind and sweet and we could guide her in the kind of person that she wants to be as opposed to if she were younger and more easily manipulated. So we decided to have her wait and start Kindergarten when she was almost six which is by far the best thing, best decision that we made. We talked to a lady in our neighborhood who's a third grade teacher and she said honestly in all of the kids that had gotten held back in all of her time teaching she said never once has a parent regretted holding a child back versus a chunk of them do regret moving them forward. So we figured it would be a smart decision to make and we're pleased with the decision. So how did the first day of school go? It was fun. She was so excited. The first day of school actually started the day before my parents at their church they had the blessing of the backpacks ceremony which is so cute where all the kids bring their backpacks and the minister gave them prayer needs to put in their backpacks for when they were scared they would know that people were thinking of them and love them. And we actually are very close with lots of people in my parents' church so it really was a very touching ceremony. And I'll answer to a clip of that here now because there are other people in the service I obviously am not going to put the other kids on the video just Malina so if it's cropped weird you'll understand why. What else do you like hanging out with your friends in the cafeteria at lunch time? No but I think my parents and I already have friends that pass the class. The next morning we got up Malina was so excited. Mauricio woke her up and said it's the first day of school and she just jumped right out of bed with a big smile on her face and she was so adorable. We got her dressed in the outfit that I showed you all a month ago or so and then we had breakfast and took pictures and I got her lunch ready. Well I had prepped her lunch the night before. I actually sent out joking texts to some of my friends about lunch prep because now I'm prepping lunches for three instead of two and it's a whole new lunch prep world for me there. But there was a little bit of stress as to what to pack for lunch and what if she doesn't like what I packed for lunch but we ended up getting her some simple things that we knew she would love. Maybe not the number one healthiest choices but I was more concerned about her eating than what she was eating because Malina is a super super picky eater. Super picky. So then we took pictures with Malina and I had gotten this little sign off Amazon. One of the many things that I purchased that I didn't need to purchase. But I'm glad I did. I'll probably use it probably until she graduates from high school and find out me. Are you excited? Yeah. What are you excited about? New school today. Yeah. Yes. Hello. Hello. I went into work late and took her to school. Meli, are you excited? Yeah. Are you nervous? I'm really actually really nervous. She was so excited. It just, ugh. I just loved it. And at school, we waited with her in the theater with the other kindergarten parents. If your parent was there, you met in one place. If your parent wasn't there, you met in another and then all of the rest of the kids met in a third location at the school. And so we walked with Melina down to her classroom but we weren't allowed to go in with her and oh my goodness, that child. She saw a couple of her friends from the neighborhood and she was off. There was no saying goodbye, no hugs. And then Mauricio got like all teary. It was so cute. And doing this, okay honey. Are you gonna cry for real? No. And it was really adorable. And then we left her. We went to work and things went back to normal. And now she is a big kindergartener and I'm a little overwhelmed that my baby who was this big. She was this big like yesterday. She's all grown up and she is. She started to have like real conversations and telling me about her day at school and she loves it and she loves hanging out with her friends. And I'm really glad that we made the decision to go ahead and put her in kindergarten this year because it was the smartest thing for us to do. It really was. She will be so much better off and it gives us another year to save for college because our little girl is going to college, paid for in cash. That's the plan and we're sticking to it. 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