Back to school...

September 8th marked the first day of school for us! Ever since I've had kids in school, they've been going back at the end of August, so it was great to have a bit of extra 'summer'. As we were heading out the door to go camping, on Thursday, I got a call from the plastic surgeons office asking if Jackson could be @ the hospital for 6:30am on Tuesday. Not wanting to miss the opportunity, I agreed, but he did miss the first day of school! Liam started playschool on Wednesday (09/09/09) and will go for two hours/day every Monday & Wednesday afternoon. He had his 'open house' last week and got to play with the little trucks, so when I took him yesterday he asked, "I get to go to the wittle school? The one with the hot wheels trucks?" When I picked him up, he told me that he liked me leaving! I could really take that personally but I won't since I was glad that he wasn't the child left there crying for me not to leave!

Liam with his bucket - they all have ice cream buckets (no lids) that they take their snacks & notices etc, to & from school in. There's a shelf at school to put them on & it works great, although he was a little sad to not get to take his backpack!

At playschool with his name tag & the trucks :)

Jackson's first day of school (grade one)

Ethan's second day - Jackson's first day!

Ethan's first day of school

Ethan - heading off to grade three

First Day of School - Round Two!

Today, was Jackson's first day of kindergarten. He will be going for full days, every other day but they are breaking the class up a bit... yesterday and today, 1/4 of the class went at a time, morning and afternoon. Next Thursday and Friday, 1/2 the class will go for a full day and then finally, on Tuesday the 9th, they will ALL go together! I'm very thrilled that the kiddies of my friends, Mona and Keri are in the same class as Jackson - much better for the 'mom social life' :) So today, while Jackson was at school, I went to spend the morning at Mona's house, so that I wouldn't be driving back and forth three times (only two round trips) but then she invited us to stay for pizza and the day, so after being assured that I wasn't outstaying my welcome, I stayed and only made one round trip... all while having a great day with a friend! It will be less complicated when he goes for full days, since Miles will drive them to school and I'll pick them up! But by staying 'out there' for the day, I completely forgot that we were invited to a 'teddy bear picnic birthday party' play date! (it was a party for the teddy bear) at our little friend, Abby's! Ooops! Too much going on right now I guess! We had a house showing yesterday afternoon (people that had been through three weeks ago) but haven't heard anything on that, and then tomorrow we have an open house for a couple hours in the morning!

Thumbs up for kindergarten....

Back....(pack)

Kindergarten here I come...

Megan, Josiah, Mrs. H. and Jackson

(Jackson and Josiah went to preschool together too)

First Day of School

Here's my little man, heading off to GRADE TWO this morning! He was a little unsure about it all, being a new school etc but I think he had a pretty good day! He was a bit weepy last night, thinking about the change and missing his former school - poor kid! Yesterday, as we were driving home from a friends place he asked, "mom, how come summer went by soooo fast?" To which I replied, "because it was soooo fun!" He then asked how long summer was and I told him, "two months" and then he said, "but it only felt like 8 weeks!" HELLO??!!?? I thought that was cute! Not sure where he heard that number though!

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