First Day of School!

The dreaded first day finally came...Maddox started third grade, Joey started fifth grade and Saylor started half-day kindergarten!

The boys...new shoes, old backpacks, new shorts, old polos....

Memories....Joey has Mrs. Battani (who told him that his hair looked like Uncle Kyle's), he got into the car and said this might be his best year in his entire life, he thought Mrs. Hunter was funny, he got new math curriculum, new discipline practices in the classroom, played football at recess....

Memories from Maddox...he is a mentor for a new kid, Jesus; he played football at recess; he likes Ms Jansen a lot, he went to Math in the 4th grade room and was worried about that, had the new music teacher and loved her, and overall had a great day! I took the kids to Chilis afterwards for big skillet desserts and Joey discovered a love for cheesecake!

Now, Saylor had her orientation for half-day kindergarten and then her first day came! She was super duper excited and not scared or nervous at all. She cannot wait to learn to read! She's constantly asking me what sounds certain letters make, and how to read or write words...I'm very ready for her to learn too! Saylor has Mrs. Basler, and both boys had her so I wasn't nervous either!

There's just something different about sending your daughter to school....I don't know what it is. Or, maybe it's that she's the baby. I'm not sure what it is....She will go to school every day this year from 8:30-11:40...which gives me a lot of time to get stuff done around the house, go to the gym, get groceries, etc. I work my butt off during those hours and am exhausted by the time I pick her up!! She loves getting to vote for the book Mrs. Basler reads every day, she loves the riddle of the day, she loves the tool man and using the tool bench, and she already knows how to read FIVE words (and loves to tell me about that). She's a lot more eager to learn than the boys were...and she's more eager to tell me all about her day than the boys were too! And, every day, I pick her up, she YELLS at her friends "BYE, BECCA! BYE JACK! BYE LAUREN!"

Here's to a great school year!!!

First Day of School

It finally came....the first day of school! To be honest though, the boys did not dread it as much as I thought they would. Joey was ready for recess, PE, learning multiplication and division, and seeing his friends again; and I think Maddox was kind of ready to be done with kindergarten. I think he went into first grade more confident and ready.  Clothes were laid out, backpacks ready, new shoes on, showers done, and of course, we got those hair colics ready to go. Ladies be loving those real soon.

Joey had a great first day! He got in the car and said "Third grade is going to be awesome!" He gets to eat the latest lunch shift which means he is not dying of hunger when he gets in the car. But, they are also the youngest grade out at recess since he is now with the 4th, 5th and 6th graders so he wasn't thrilled about that. Apparently, he and his friends asked to play with the 4th graders and they got told "No." That made Joe and I kind of laugh....but, otherwise he had a really good day!

Maddox also had a great first day but he was a little quiet in the car. Of course, he WAS hungry because he has the 10:30 lunch time! He said he liked his table and that he has the first three days "off" from homework but then it starts next Monday. He likes his teacher and he played basketball and kickball at recess. Also, Joey told me the news on the playground was that Maddox was the "wanted" player on the flag football team, so I think that kind of lifted Maddox's spirit.

Here's to a great third grade and first grade year! Miss Thing starts preschool after Labor Day so we will be having a lot of one-on-one time in the next few weeks!