School days, school days, good old golden rule days…

That’s the song Ahba (my grandfather) would sing to us every year on the first day of school.  We would wait for that phone call and hear him on the other line singing the whole song to us.  So of course this is the song we sing in our house on school days and the kids love it.  We woke them up this morning with singing and very excited for the school day to start.  Andrew was very confused.  We had the following conversation:

Andrew:  Dad, is it my birthday today?!!?

Chris:  Nope not today

Andrew:  Are we putting the Christmas tree up today?

Chris:  No, not today.  Today is the first day of school!

Andrew:  My first day of pre-school?!?

Chris/me:  No, you don’t start school for another two weeks

Andrew in complete tears.  It was a hard morning for him.

Kallie and Ben on the other hand had a GREAT morning!  They were up and ready for school in the clothes they had picked out the night before.  I love that my kids get so excited to go to school!

My adorable 1st grader not liking the sun

How cute are these pictures of Ben!  He looks so much older to me this year.  It’s amazing how fast they change in just one short year!

 

Best of buddies.

All ready to ride to school on their bikes with their new bike locks in tow!

Andrew decided walking wasn’t for him so Chris carried him on his shoulders.  He still wasn’t very happy it wasn’t his birthday, christmas tree day, or preschool day.  Poor kid.

 

New bike locks are hard to get on!  Chris had to help Kal get hers on and locked up.  I thought it was so adorable to watch them….so of course I took a picture. (I may or may not have taken 60 pictures this morning)

 

Ben’s an old pro at this bike lock thing

Kallie in front of her classroom door.  She has the classroom with the race cars this year…she asked me why her teacher chose a “boy” thing like cars and not a “girl” thing like princess crowns.  Good question if you ask me…I told her to ask her teacher :)

I spent so long taking Kallie’s pictures by the time I got to Ben’s class the door was closed so I didn’t open it and go in.  But here is his classroom door with Ben inside. :)  That counts right?

So the final word on the first day of school – Kallie had a horrible day.  She got sores on her feet from her new shoes, attacked by the swing that left a nasty sore on her arm, didn’t make ANY new friends (that means she says that everyone in her class isn’t her friend yet), and she misses her kindergarten teacher.  Her only good part of the day was that she got to sit next to Ben at lunch and he helped her open her pudding cup.  Hopefully tomorrow will be better for Kal.

Ben on the other hand had an amazing day!  He came home completely pumped and couldn’t stop talking about how cool his class is and how much he loves his teacher.  He loves recess and is now wanting to get up everyday to do pushups and run on the “running machine” ie – treadmill.  When I asked him what he new obsession with exercise was he told me he plays a game at recess where he has to run really fast and be in really good shape.  Sounds good to me!  In fact tonight when we took the kids out to celebrate the first day of school (I normally make them a dinner…but since I can’t cook right now I let Chili’s do it for us) he ordered a hamburger off the adult menu…and ate the WHOLE thing!  Those things are huge!  He said he needed the protein from the meat and the tomato’s from the ketchup :)  See, he’s trying so hard to get healthy :)  On the drive home he asked Chris and I the best way to get rid of a very full tummy.  Since it was almost 8pm we told him a good nights sleep.  He came right home and we had no problem getting him or Kallie to bed.  I love nights like this!  Welcome school days!