We have officially ended our first day of school 2012...and I am exhausted! But that might have something to do with the fact that I was up waaaaaayyy too late last night alternating between sniffling that my baby was headed to kindergarten and excited for the new school year to start. So I'm apologizing in advance if this post doesn't make too much sense...I really want to check it off my to-do list, but I'm a little giddy from lack of sleep.
After said staying up too late excited and crying, we hit the road running this morning. It's a big day when there's 3rd grade and kindergarten to start! We had all the obligatory photos to take on the porch.
I loved seeing everyone's "back to school" photos today on Facebook. Since I sorta kinda forgot to take photos on my phone (and it takes too long to upload them from my camera), I'm just going to link up from here. I also didn't realize that I have so many friends who had children the same age as Phoebe. It seemed like everybody was sending a baby off to kindergarten!
And the children's emotions were all over the board. From sad to scared to worried to excited to ecstatic. Phoebe was more on the excited/ecstatic end of the scale. She's been waiting for kindergarten for two years!
I made our traditional first day of school SCHULTUTE for the teachers. These were kind of fun because the side of the paper I used for the outside said, "Keep Calm and Carry On" in all different fonts and on the inside (where it was black with white writing), it said, "Panic and Freak Out". I thought it fitting for the first day of school...for both teachers and students!
We headed off to school and dropped Eli off first. This is Mrs. Gjerde. She seems like a lot of fun and I have a good feeling about this year.
I'm pretty sure we're inching toward the time in Eli's life when he won't let me take his photo in his chair, but we're not there yet, so I snapped away.
A last hug good-bye.
And we were off to the kindergarten wing. I'm hoping Phoebe will never be old enough to think she's too cool to let me take her photo at her desk.
See? I was doing just fine. Really. I didn't cry this morning...at school. Had a little moment when I got home by myself, but luckily I had a really messy kitchen to attend to so it kept my mind off things.
This is Phoebe's teacher, Mrs. Boaz. We're excited to have her, too. I think it's going to be a great year!
One last photo with Dad, and the grown-ups were off to school's Boo Hoo Breakfast.
I couldn't wait to pick them up and hear about their day! Seriously, it was so much fun! They were both pretty loquacious and I got so many fun details. Like the fact that Phoebe held hands with her new friend going down the double slide but she doesn't know her new friend's name and that Eli read a book about somebody getting ready for school...and it turned out to be the teacher! I kind of wished I'd had a video recording of my whole afternoon because little tidbits kept popping up. It was awesome!
Now it's 8 o'clock and we are all soon to be tucked away in bed. And I mean all of us. This school stuff is hard! :)
2 comments:
Mrs. Gjerde is the wife of one of Jonathan's fraternity brothers! I have always enjoyed her company when we have had occasion to be together. Her kiddos are great too. I hope Eli has a great year! Phoebe will be awesome! Get some rest!! I think our first day of school was hardest on me. I had the first day of school excited jitters here. Who knew?! Best of years to you all!
It's so fun to hear about everyone's first day and to know that I'm not the only one that loses it! Lol! I hate to say, for me personally, that the first day never gets easier. We had two start 4th and 5th grade and I still boo-hooed after I dropped them off all the way to the other school to drop off the two little ones. (And I still made the two older girls take a picture in front of the school. Tehehe!)
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