Thursday, August 23, 2012

First Day of School

School started on Wednesday.  Macy & Lily were so excited, Jack not so much.  He was happier after he saw his friends & didn't complain as much this morning as he did the first day.  I'm not ready for the alarm to have to be set, to have to get (most of) us all up & ready before 7:10, or the dreaded homework (x2 this year!), but I do like the routines of school.  Lily is going 4 mornings a week & I am loving having some time with just Ava & Henry, then time with the 3 little ones in the afternoon before big kids get home.

Lily has been so precious & so bubbly about everything she does.  She's always been the one that didn't mind leaving me & has always been more independent that the others, she's also our most social I do believe.  So, all that rolls into one happy little school girl!  So far, her favorite thing about school-going to "little church", which is Atrium, or the religion part of her day.  Her disappointment is that she doesn't get to stay for lunch.  She can already tell me most of the kids' names in her class (Jack & Macy took months before they even realized other kids HAD names.  Haahaa!).

Macy loves being one of the "top dogs" & seems to have matured almost overnight.  She is looking forward to the big responsibilities that come with being a 5th grader & I can already tell this year is going to fly by...it really seems like only a year has passed since this once-nervous momma walked her very nervous little kindergartner into that big, unfamiliar school.  Heck, she owns the place now.  Haha!

Jack, in typical male fashion, has little to say about school.  He's processing it & will share when he's ready.  He has a sister for a teacher & we are so happy for this influence in his life.  Our school is blessed with 2 sisters as teachers, but they came after Macy was beyond the grades they teach.  He did come home with a stuffed tree frog today, having won bingo and that was his prize.  No other details, just that, but the key to that kid's heart is stuffed animals and anything and everything squishy.

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