It was last fall when I wrote a blog post that I so fondly called The Slow Walk.  I attached a link to it, and if you ask me, I think you ought to just go read it real quick because 1. I really loved it as one of my favorites ever and 2. It will make it so the rest of this post is much easier to understand. It’s ok….I’ll wait!

So are you back? Great! 🙂

This year at the school pick up, things are a little bit different. With Eli in the afternoon preschool, it is neccessary for me to pick him up on the kindergarten side of the school because that is where the entrance to the preschool is. So… I guess I should call it the preschool/kindergarten side – or maybe even the p-k side. I haven’t been over there in a year and it does take some getting used to all over again. This, therefor, means that Logan has to make his way over to the p-k side after school to meet up with us. We no longer reunite on the bigger-guy side of school except for on Fridays.

It just so happened to work out that the daughters of two of my friends are in Logan’s class and they also have younger siblings that need picking up on the p-k side so we arranged that our big kids would walk out the front of the school and around to the side to meet us. Perfect.

Well, on Tuesday (second day for Logan, first day for Eli) my friends and I collected our youngest ones and found ourselves waiting… and then waiting just a little longer… for our big ones to come around. Being the first time we implemented this routine, my awareness of time was a bit more heightened as I kept an eye out for Logan. Well, all of a sudden, my big guy and his two friends came walking out the preschool door instead of from around the front of the school…

Begin T-H-E  S-L-O-W  W-A-L-K.

This was all I could think of when I saw Logan and the girls walk through. As if they were all-of-a-sudden high-schoolers. I spotted Logan first walking toward me. Tall guy, slick short hair, looking around for me with a furrowed brow then finally meeting my eye…Then the girls appeared behind him…all fashionable in their skirts and hair ties… All three of them with back packs that fit and aire of cool….like elementary school is so “old hat!”

The Big Kids

I certainly wish I would have been so fast with my camera as to have captured them in their glorious walk, but no such luck. It’s exciting to know that they have been together already two years and can plan on going through the rest of  their school-age careers side by side. I might even be catching a glimpse of Eli’s future crew-who he might be slow walking with before I even realize it! 

Up and Coming… 

Better keep the cameras ready!