Étude of Humanity

Chapter Three

As Sayre becomes five years old, my mama and papa funnily forgot to get me to a kindergarten because they (or also I) were too busy complimenting me as their smart and able-talked daughter at such a mindblowingly early age. I was wondering about entering school whenever I see children my age walk home from school with their hats and cute backpacks whenever mama, papa, and I hang out outside.

I figured that going to school is fun! Sayre gets to meet so many more people other than mama and papa. Though, I didn't even had one bit of reminding mama and papa because I figured they know I'd eventually to. But that didn't happen.

One morning where mama and I had to wake up early, we were in front of the large mirror in my room as mama fixes up my clothes for kindergarten school. It just so happens to be the first day of school.

"Ookay, dear!" Mama says that delightfully after she tightens the ribbon in front of my uniform. "Now look at you, you look so cute!"

Once Sayre looked at the mirror, I squealed joyfully with my eyes looking rounder and bigger than imaginable. I spun around in place to look at myself. "Whaa! Mama, mama! You're right!"

Mama giggled with a smile at me. She thought so too.

After getting everything ready now with the cute backpack that I've seen so many times outside now on my back, mama and I walked downstairs to see papa ready in the living room as well. Just like mama, papa also thought how cute I am in this kindergarten uniform.

"Hehe, thankoo papa!" Sayre shyfully thanks, embarassed as I scratch my head a little.

We went outside, got ourselves in the car nice and cozy, and papa drove south. It was a twenty-minute drive to my kindergarten in Shiroishi, a ward south of Higashi where we reside.

Mama, papa, and I walk together at the front entrance of the kindergarten just after papa parked the car nearby, and the same image is true for the families surrounding us walking to the same direction. Families immediately walked in to the kindergarten, but for some reason, we stopped at the gate by the sign where it reads the name of my kindergarten.

"Alright sweetheart, you and Sayre stand by the sign. I'll take a picture."

Papa told mama and I as he readies his cute little digital camera, and so we did. Then last minute, mama suggested to picture me alone in the sign first before her. Snap! Then it was mama and I's turn in the picture. Snap! Then it was papa and I's turn. Snap!

"Hello! I can take the three of you a picture if you'd like."

"Oh?" Mama turns to the man after the three of us reviewed the photos. She takes the digital camera from papa's hands and hands it over to him. "We don't mind, thank you, thank you!"

Luckily, a kindly father figure pictured all three of us on the kindergarten sign; Mama on my left, papa on my right, and captain obvious Sayre in the center just below the sign!

"Mama," Sayre tugs to her clothes to beg her attention, "What about the pictures where it's just you and me, or me and papa?"

"Huh?" both mama and papa went pondered about it and looked at each other for a second with blinks. Then they both laughed, Sayre joined the laugh, the three of us shared a laughter. The man who took the photo of us awkwardly walked near to us to return the digicam (a new cute nickname because Sayre's tired saying two words) to papa. Mama and papa thanked him, and he went back to his wife and child waiting nearby and went in.

"Sayre, you preview the picture for us so we can all have a look," papa hands out his digicam to me.

"Yesoo!" Sayre happily takes it.