August 22 - First Day of 2nd Grade

Andlie started school again today!  First day of 2nd grade!

We all woke up early (like 6:30 early), took some pictures, and were at our traditional "go to breakfast on the first day of school" breakfast by 7:15!  Then we dropped Andlie off at school where they had the traditional "red carpet" & balloons out and music playing!  Andlie was SO EXCITED!  She marched right down that carpet like a boss.  She asked me to "please wear my sunglasses so her friends wouldn't see me cry."  Good thing she did.  All smiles until I watched her walk in to class.  Then there were some tears.  She's getting go big!  I love her SO MUCH!  I'm so proud to be her Momma.  I hope she has a wonderful year at school!

After we dropped Andlie off, we went to Haze's Kindergarten assessment with his teacher!  This is where she can test him on Kindergarten skills and make a teaching plan for the year.  Haze was so brave and did so good!  

He was a bit nervous and wanted to say just the right things.  She said, "What's your name?"  And Haze responded by spelling, "H-A-Z-E."  She said, "But my name is Mrs. Sumsion.  What's yours?"  And then he spelled his name again.  He kept doing the same thing with letter recognition.  "What letter is this?"  And then he'd make the sound the letter made.  Once he relaxed a bit, he did great!  (And even before.  Clearly he's a genius.)  He was happy when we left and excited to start Kindergarten next week!  He was especially proud because Mrs. Sumsion gave him his very first homework assignment!

While Andlie was at school, he came up to me & said, "Mom!  I have a HILARIOUS idea!  I need some tape and a marker!"  And then next thing I knew, he looked like this:

"Andlie, how did school go today?  Show Daddy."

Andlie brought home A LOT of papers to fill out.  Her answers on the birthday worksheet deserved a picture.  She's so funny.

Waking up at 6:30 is hideous hard.

Nora has been loving her princess dresses again lately.  And she loves it when we pretend she's a princess in a parade.  I say, "Oh, look!  There's Rapunzel!"  And then I wave and she waves back and "throws candy" at me.

We played Pick Up Sticks for FHE tonight.  Funniest thing ever to watch the kids play.  Andlie was so concentrated and deliberate.  Haze wasn't as deliberate, but he kept getting lucky (every time).  And Nora was kind of like a little lion cub in the grass and would just find a stick and POUNCE and jiggle the entire pile.