Five pictures from the first day of school.

So school started yesterday, as it did in many places. This year was a special year for us though, as Lauren started Kindergarten. She's not *quite* five- her birthday is still a week away- but she's clearly ready and meets the cutoff. Mike and I are shocked at how fast that five years went!

First, your traditional first day of school photo with all the kids. 5th grade, 2nd grade, Kindergarten.

Then the excited girl herself.

Happily, Noah is in the same class as his BFF again this year.  Since it's a brand new school, it was pretty important that he have something to ground him a bit. Noah struggles to contain himself, and if he didn't know anyone it would be a disaster.

Tristan's BFF is there too, but is in 4th grade, so they have to content themselves to recess and playground time.

Mrs. Harford has been teaching Kindergarten for 29 years. How many first day pictures do you think she's taken?

This morning also went smoothly, but Lauren was a little  nervous out on the playground waiting for the bell. I hung around until most of the kids were there, but she was uncharacteristically shy and unwilling to reach out. (This is normally the child that marches up and introduces herself to any other kid in the playground/park/restaurant/etc.)  I gave her a big reassuring hug, and I bet she does just fine.

First Day of School!

Yesterday was the Pirate's first day of school! I know there are moms all over the country who experienced the exact same thing, and it was just as shocking to them, but HOW IN THE WORLD DO I HAVE A SCHOOL KID???

Because the Kindergarten program here is a half day thing (ugh, not even half day 12:10-2:45!) he also had to swap to a new daycare/preschool. While we love the old place, she doesn't have the means to transport kids to school, especially not to a variety of schools. So we got everyone ready and first went to the new daycare. Here's the Pirate's smiling face- he was a bit excited.

And here he is with the Bug. No, there aren't uniforms, the Bug just really REALLY wanted to be like his brother.

After a bit of help extricating the Bug from the new place ("I go Westside too! I go school!") we left him there for the morning. Grandpa came over around lunch time and Mike and I went and picked up the Pirate to take him to "real" school.

He had a little problem with his lunch, therefore, new clean shirt for school. We took him in and expected to have to settle his nerves, but he barely looked back at us.

At the end of the day, he could not stop talking about what fun he had and all the new things he did. He learned to do monkey bars all by himself! (I have yet to see this in action.) He colored a book about being at school!  He ate a hot dog! Sadly, he did not learn how to read. (I guess he thought it would happen in a day?)

Overall, he had a terrific day and is so so SO excited to be a big kid.

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