Today was Jackie's snack day at school. He helped me make cookies shaped like the letter N, the letter of the week. He wanted me to come in for snack time to see his class. He loves his teacher, Miss Mary Beth.
He had no desire to leave Miss Mary Beth's class and go to kindergarten next year. But, we talked about how after after kindergarten, he'd get to go on to older grades and then eventually college. From our visit to my alma mater this fall for homecoming, his response to going to college was "And then I get to drink SODA? And eat brownies?" He was excited enough about those things to say that it's okay to go on to kindergarten, if he gets to have those things in college.