It's Official! Gabriel's a BIG Boy Preschooler!!!

Our little boy is now riding the school bus to and from preschool!!! He made it the entire 3 days this week without much incident. I had been prepping him all Sunday that he was going to ride the bus to school in the morning. Not sure how much of it he understood. On the first day he was happy and thought he was going outside to play in his sandbox. When the bus pulled up, he got upset and panicked. I had to carry him onto the bus where the 2 grandmotherly looking ladies were waiting for him. He threw his Toby train out the door and started to cry. I got to see his face looking out the window as they drove away. His teacher said he ended up doing very well on the bus and he was happy as usual when he came home.
Morning #2 things were a little easier. He walked up onto the bus himself like a big boy. He did stand there and looked at me with a bit of panic in his face, but managed to not have a fit and waved bye to me from his seat on the bus. Can a mother get any happier?
Day #3 and it's official...Gabriel is a big preschooler! He got on the bus with out incident and waved at me once again from the window of his school bus. He even managed to do it all without a fuss or too much of a look of panic on his face. To think he started his first 6 weeks of preschool with tears, fears, anxiety, hand holding, sobbing and lots of vomiting.