It has been raining off and on today. It was nice this morning while I was drinking my coffee (although Jacob told me while we were having lunch that it started pouring about the time he stepped out of the car to walk to his office this morning). It is raining again as I type this. Today has been busy and my two little boys are making the first day of school seem like a wonderful thing. Every one talks about how it is a bittersweet moment--taking your children to the first day of school and leaving them. My boys have been bouncing off the walls, fighting, and just being down-right crazy. People will make excuses for them, but the truth is--summer vacation has come to an end and it IS time for school to start again. I will miss them while they're at school and I will think about them on their first day, especially Alex who will spend his first full day at school on Thursday. We've bought the school supplies, we have back packs, the boys have new shoes, new clothes, Alex has a lunch bag and Thermos. We are officially ready for school. Jacob took off work for a couple of hours (or so) this morning and we took the boys to the school for information day. We went to the office and asked where we needed to go. The classrooms are always being moved for some reason and I had no idea where either of the boys' classes were. We asked the office and they said that they hadn't assigned the kindergarteners to teachers yet because they had so many kindergarteners that they had to hire more teachers. We didn't get to meet Alex's teacher or see his class because no one knows what class he is going to be in. We did, however, get to see Mrs. Cook, who was Alex's Pre-K teacher last year--she is teaching Kindergarten this year and got a hug from Alex.
We then walked down the halls until we found the Pre-K classroom. Logan was excited about the classroom. He kept pointing to things and saying, "Look, mommy!" or "I want to play with that thing." His teacher seems young and appeared to be a little nervous, but she was great with the kids and Logan liked her--but there are very few people Logan doesn't like! Logan seems excited about school--Alex doesn't seem to care either way, so hopefully day one will go well!
We had lunch with Jacob today before he went back to work--that is always a nice treat. We then ran some errands which included returning books to the library (and getting more, of course). We were leaving the library and the boys always like to push the OPEN buttons to automatically open the doors. They waited patiently for other people to come through and then when there was a gap Alex pushed the button. The doors slowly opened outward and a man wearing a wife-beater shirt had jogged up from his car (it was sprinkling so I assume he thought he'd melt?) When the doors opened he looked down at the boys with an annoyed expression, looked at the doors, sighed loudly and then pushed his way by the boys, forcing them to get as close to the doors as they could to let the man by. The man was also nice enough to give me a dirty look--how dare a woman and two little boys get in his way. Jeez. As he passed Logan said, "Hey, watch it mister! I'm walking here." As we were walking to the car I asked Logan where he had heard that. He shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know. TV maybe?" Ha.
We have been practicing name writing this week and yesterday I packed Alex's lunch in his lunch bag so he could practice eating lunch from it--learning where everything is, how to open things, what goes in the trash and what comes home. He thought it was cool once he figured out where everything was--we will try it again tomorrow. I am glad we invested in a lunch bag for Alex--we received the school menu for August today and out of the two weeks of lunches this month there are only three days Alex wants to eat what the cafeteria is serving. I also packed Logan's lunch in a brown paper sack so he could join his brother and not feel left out--he will only be going to school for half a day so he will get to eat lunch with me!
Here are some photos of the boys eating lunch and Alex taking a test run with his new lunch bag.
He doesn't look excited here, but he was excited about eating out of his lunch bag. He said it was "cool"--I think he was giving me a sad face here because I didn't pack ranch in his bag to dip his potato chips in. He's a picky eater--a picky eater who thinks everything should be dipped in either ranch or ketchup--depending on what it is, of course! Ha.
Logan got to pick out a Thermos when Alex got one. Here Logan is having a sack lunch with his brother. He thought it was pretty cool, but doesn't understand why Alex gets to eat at school and he doesn't get to.
Lunch buddies! They both took a drink from their Thermos at the same time!
Here the boys are after a busy day (which isn't over, yet). While we were at the school we kept hearing, "Hi, Alex." Alex would wave or just say "hi" and then either ignore the child or just act goofy. It was funny, but he seemed to know all the children in the school. Hopefully Kindergarten will be a lot of fun for him--and I'm sure Logan will love Pre-K.
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