First Day of School!

Thursday was the first day of school and everyone was excited. We take a neighbor to school in the morning. Despite the fact that I reassured her we would pick her up in plenty of time, she couldn’t wait any longer and decided to just come over.

That was good because Seanelle was still in bed (so was I because she was 2 1/2 hours early.) She was able to wake Seanelle and get her motivated to ready herself for the first day of school. It wasn’t the routine that I had planned, but it worked.

They had several minutes of time to kill and decided to work out on dad’s treadmill. They each had several turns before they decided to find something else to do.

They each had a difficult time concentrating on eating breakfast. GaryTodd decided to eat cereal with milk like the older girls, and although he ate, he didn’t eat much. Seanelle only ate about half of what she normally eats. They were all just too excited.

 

 

 

 

 

GaryTodd is not usually the leader. But he was really excited to get to school. He already knows who his teacher is, and he doesn’t want to be late. The older girls followed, but not at the pace GT would have preferred.

We found GaryTodd’s cubby and he hung up his Transformer backpack. Then we went to find his seat.

He got to choose where to sit, and he chose a seat right next to his cousin, Ashton.

The teacher told the kids that their first job as Kindergartners were to tell their parents “Good-bye.” He did a good job of following the rules. What a sweetheart.

“Bye-bye my baby…” Now what am I going to do for the next 2 1/2 hours?

 

When we showed up at the school to check the list of names to find out who Seanelle’s teacher was, she wasn’t on any of the lists. We were able to find where our friend was assigned, but we couldn’t find out where Seanelle was supposed to go.

We had to go to the office and stand in line. Luckily Grandma came with us this morning and was able to stand in line in the office with Seanelle while I took her brother to his classroom.

Luckily Seanelle wasn’t completely forgotten. She was on the master list, and her teacher was all prepared to have her there. She was very excited to find out that she got the teacher she has been telling us all summer long that she wanted to have.

 

 

 

After school, GaryTodd waved at us as the teacher lined everyone up to show them where they will need to be in the morning.

It was a strange day for me to have my baby in school, but he had a lot of fun. He told me that he didn’t talk at all in school because it is the rule.

Then he told me that his backpack is too small and that he needs a bigger one.

That’s what they learn to do best in school, and it starts on the very first day of Kindergarten. They learn how to get more and more money out of the parents.