1st Day of School

Well the day has finally arrived!!! School started and it is a little bittersweet for me, everyone was so excited this morning and I just couldn't believe my summer was over and we were starting a new school year. I really have had a great summer with these little monkey's!

Here is everyone this morning with big smiles and ready to go.
Coleman is starting 4th grade and i can hardly believe it. He was pretty excited about school just not his uniform. He really didn't want to wear these shorts because he thought he looked like a dork. I told him that everyone at his school looked like a dork so it didn't matter, besides it was 95 degrees today and I don't think long pants are the way to go.

When I picked him up from school his best friend Conner, who is in 3rd grade and has Coleman's teacher from last year, rode home with us and I asked them how the day went, and Conner said he liked everything but Geography. Coleman then told him " Geography is great just wait till they pull out grammar" , Conner then asked "what is grammar" Coleman says " Its words and sentences and spelling and rules, everything I hate, just wait it's bad!" I had to laugh because it is so true he hates grammar!

I really do love this kid, he loves all things mechanical and loves to watch shows like Build it Bigger and How it's Made, but ask him to write something and you would think you were cutting his fingers off. Maybe one day he will come around.

Evelyn sitting at her desk in her 1st grade class. I think it was the hardest for me watching her go today because she gets to stay all day this year. I am so used to having her around and helping me out with everything. She was so excited for school and thought it was so great that she gets to bring her lunch.

Today when the kids got home from school I asked her how her day was and she was so happy and said it was great and that she even got homework! For Evelyn homework is like ice cream, honestly she came right home and did it before she even changed out of her uniform. Later Brian asked the kids if they wanted to go to the park while Mommy made dinner and of course they all ran for their shoes and were waiting at the door. Evelyn on the other hand decided she would rather stay home and read, READ-are you kidding me. Some of you may have kids like this but we are coming off of Coleman, the boy who hates words and writing and spelling, so this is not normal to us. I will say it is blessing.

Leland was so excited to start her new preschool this year and she had to wear a skirt her first day. I told her it might get dirty at recess and she said "Mommy you can put it in the washing machine" to which i said ok you are right. So off we went.

Leland is definitely our most attached child and on the way to school she said "Mommy I am going to miss you" and then in her most pitiful voice she said "And I already miss Daddy" Mind you we had only been gone from the house 5 mins. Even with all that she walked right in and never looked back, and after school she was all smiles, A+ for Leland.

This little girl think she is so big!!! I have her going to 1 morning a week to a little preschool and she was so excited. Claire got up this morning and with all the other kids got her backpack and was ready to go to her first day. When we got there I asked her where she wanted to take her picture and she jumped right in this little car and when i said goodbye she looked right at me and waved and said "Bye Mommy" It was so cute I almost died, she is such a fun kid.

Now if you have stayed with me this long then you realize that this means I am child free on Monday mornings!!!! I really did NOT know what to do with myself. After a QUIET breakfast, I went on a long walk outside WITHOUT a huge heavy stroller-YEA!!! Then I took a nice shower where I had no one looking at me and pointing. For some reason the sight of me naked is quite funny to my little girls, and for once i wasn't laughed at while I was in the shower-YEA again. By the time I picked them up at Noon I truly did miss Leland and Claire. I will have to say this is not a bad way to start the week!