Big Kid

Star Sheets
Originally uploaded by enwudz

At the sprinkler park the other morning, we suddenly noticed that I was the biggest kid there. Everyone else was in the under-2 crowd, and I looked huge next to them. I used to always be the littlest one wherever we went. My feet seem to have grown a size bigger in the last 2 weeks too. My sandals are suddenly too small.

Since I'm getting so big, I'm no longer sleeping in my little crib. I LOVE my new bed. It was exciting but unsettling the first night, and I woke up crying a few times, but the next night I slept like a baby. I mean, like a big kid in a big kid bed. It's fun to sit and bounce on, and I enjoy laying my head down on the bed and hitting the mattress hard with my hand, because it makes a loud echo sound right in my ear that cracks me up. How do you like my new star sheets? Don't I have good taste? They match my fuzzy blue star blanket that I like to chew and drool on.

Mom and Dad have been telling me that in just a few weeks, I'll be big enough to go to preschool. They say that I'll make new friends there and play and paint and read books and sing songs and learn new things. We got a picture of my teachers in the mail that I look at every day. They look nice. I hope they know that I don't like going down slides and I like my sandwiches cut in pieces and I don't know how to use a straw yet and stuff. So, yeah, I'm a little nervous. I'm getting big, but I'm still just a little guy.