Keith's First Day in First Grade

So nice to see all of your posts! I was popping around checking lots of blogs last night while trying to update mine, so didn't have time to leave many messages, but I probably checked yours out. I still have a few to look at and add to my list, but good to "see" those of you that I did last night! I hope to post a bit more often now that we are getting back into some kind of a schedule. (PS- the pics posted backwards, and the computer is giving me trouble so I am just going with it as is).

So Keith headed back to school today. It was a beautiful sunny day- hopefully we have a few more left this year! So Rachel and Thomas and I played out in the yard. This is Thomas on top of the "tower" that I hate that he gets himself up too. It has the ladder entrance, then the other side is just a gaping hole for him to fall through. And I put our castle over there for the other kids to climb on, so he could get pretty banged up if he fell. Needless to say, I am always right there if he decides to climb up. It makes for lots of fun when he climbs up, wants down, then 30 seconds later wants back up! You all know how it goes!


Thomas climbed onto this swing all by himself and was so proud. Rachel and he swung on it for awhile, but he doesn't like to get too high, and if he does, he is done with it for awhile. Rachel also decided to do some acrobatics so I could capture it on camera. Does everyone else remember climbing all over swingsets like this too?


See, doesn't it look scary? Okay, probably not, but it is about a 4-5 climb up and if he misses that last step like he almost did once today....(luckily mommy was there to catch him- but that just made the paranoia worse!)



Here is my handsome first grader- all ready to go to school. We are going to a charter school this year, so we get to drive (which isn't that big a deal because we did it all year last year and we were zoned for a bus- although living 3/4 of a mile from the bus stop and having my Kindergartner walking there didn't excite me too much). We have to get there a bit earlier tomorrow so that Keith can play on the playground before school starts. We got there just as they were lining up today, and he so wanted to play. Hopefully the younger kids will cooperate tomorrow just fine.

All dressed and ready to go. Doesn't he look handsome? One of the things about our school is that there is a uniform dress code. It doesn't bother Keith because he likes to be kind of dressed up, although talking to other moms today, very few kids actually wear the tie- it is optional. But Keith wanted to, so I let him. He wants to wear it tomorrow too. This from the kid that can't keep a clip on during all 3 hours of church! This one is velcro so maybe that helps? He chose the button down oxford shirt instead of the more casual polo, but he likes it and is happy, so I am happy. The night before school, I told him I had to wash all his uniforms so they would be ready for school (we got them on Monday afternoon and were gone most of the day on Tuesday) and he was very concerned they weren't going to be done. So at 9:30 pm, he comes out and asks me if I had changed the laundry and wanted to make sure I was going to bring the clothes he wanted to wear up to his room. I assured him I would- which is part of the reason I was online so late last night and able to update this blog. Why am I up so late tonight? I just don't do well with bedtime when Tyson is gone! Looking forward to Sept. when I get to go see him for a weekend!

So we are now back in the school routine- or at least learning our new one. Day one went well, we'll see how day 2 goes. Good luck to any of you out there with the transition looming, but somehow I think most people have already started and we are the later ones.