Summer is over, which means parents are filling up your timelines with adorable back-to-school photos of their kids (and more than a few chalkboards).
This year, though, the most adorably memorable back-to-school photos belong to Dallas-based mom Carina Cansino, 21, and her 5-year-old son, Gus.
To commemorate Gus's first year of elementary school, Carina put him in an oversized T-shirt that had "Class of 2032" emblazoned on the front...
And, on the back, markings for Gus to leave a handprint on the first day of every school year until he graduates from high school!
Carina posted the photos to Twitter, where they absolutely blew up, garnering more than 34,000 retweets and over 216,000 likes.
Let’s begin the first year of elementary 😁
"The response has been overwhelming but in a good way!" Carina said. "I love the amount of love my son is getting. It seems Gus has an entire fanbase on Twitter now, haha."
Carina actually started doing this last year when Gus started pre-K (which explains the two handprints in the viral photos above).
This was last year 🥺
Carina said, "I hope parents are able to recreate, if not the same tradition, something similar or better with their own kids."
Carina also hopes their photos change the way people think about young parents. "I had Gus at 15 and have always strived to be a great mom to him," Carina said. "People often have misconceptions of what young parents are capable of. This is to show that even young parents can be fun, creative, and bond with their kid over the years."
Gus went on his first helicopter ride and I wish we could do it all over again 💞