Wanted to take a few minutes to recap the joy of Monday and starting school in almost-July. I had absolutely no energy for this day, nor creativity...so we went for the not-so-exciting pancakes (chocolate chip!) for the 1st-day-bfast, slathered with lots of whipped cream :) Simple, but the gang was happy!
I don't know why, but my least fav. thing about school mornings is packing lunches. But, alas, here we go again!
I tried to think of something cutesty for their lunches, but this is all could come up with...thank you, NYC Dylan's candystore for cute gummies...Shelb got turtles, Ash got butterflies, D got sharks! They were pretty excited about them at lunchtime :)
Our first time getting ready for school in the new home...and the new jack-n-jill bathroom :)
My beautiful "firstie"! :)
My Handsome "fourthie"...ok, I am pretty sure that is not a proper (or cool) way to address a mature 4th grader, but I have never claimed to be the "cool" mom :)
My "last year of elementary school" girl...wow....how did THAT happen?
My fav. group pic of the Fab. Five outside our new home :) Hailey was sweet enough to get out of bed on her first day back and grace us with her pretty face for a pic, even though she is no longer a MCCSC student. Bless her! Plus I won't be there for her 1st day of 10th grade in NYC, so this will sorta count for that...And officially she was still registered at her school here, as we got the annoying phonecall that she was absent....and her poor friends had to tell teachers that she was not there when her name was called...all very weird...
1st, 4th & 6th. One thing that is good about this year is that I only have one school to go to...might be the first time since Hailey was Kindergarten since that happened....and might be the last time for quite awhile. Weird!
Is it me,or does Dylan look taller than Shelb? One thing that always strikes me about 1st day of school pics is...how fast the kids grow...
A mommy-daddy pic...cuz you know they wanted this! lol :)
My beautiful 6th grader....
Ready to head to school....
My sweet guy...he was the most anti-picture this morning....which confused me...usually he never complains about anything!
Finally we made it to school....I think we were earlier than normal for the 1st day bc I had plenty of time to take a pic by the school sign! Oh joy!
I thought we could get into the school early like normal, but we needed to wait outside...with our mounds of school supplies :)
Once that bell rang, Ash found one of her best friends and left us in her dust. Independent firstie!
We caught up with her...and snapped a few pics...of her cubbie....awww, I love cubbies :)
Her awesome teacher...Mrs. Stubbs (that is short for her much longer name,which reminds me of us...Stegs :))
Her own desk :)
Her room...she was one of the first kids there...and lol...I am not the only crazy parent taking pics apparently :)
Walking to the other end of the hallway...I finally have 2 in secondary....
D's room has a chinchilla for a pet...awwww :) Loggy loved it!
D's teacher is awesome...she is the sister of his teacher from last year. I know Mrs. P. will challenge him and I am glad he's in a 4-5 split since he was one point away from being asked into the ALPS program that Hailey was in at another school.
See, I wasn't kidding about the non-picture-boy :) The face says it all!
His "rowdy" gang of 4th and 5th graders :)
Then off to awesome 6th grade....Shelb was already settled in and sitting next to her bestie :) Phew...we didn't care what teacher she had, but we were just relieved she was with Syd!
The last elementary 1st-day-of-school pic I can take of this girl :)
Shelb and her teacher, Ms.Y...she loves her bc she is super organized...Shelb loves organization!
I thought Hays would go back to bed on her day of playing hooky from school...nope, she started doing all her laundry. Man, that is one rare teenager!
Loggy took this opportunity on the 1st day of school to go in his siblings rooms and play, play, play!
Then off to his first day of swim lessons....
He was officially too young for the class (you are supposed to be three), but they had only a couple registered for Level 1, so I put him in...he's the size of a 3 year old for sure! He seemed excited...
He had the cutest little class of 3 and his teacher was great! I think Loggy was the only one not afraid of the water at all...he was fearless....
And he actually did most of the swim-stuff he was told to do...
Torpedo arms!
And big Sis even watched him....gotta love those pretty ballerina feet :)...and check out cute Loggy getting ready to jump in the pool....
I love first swim lessons...soooo cute!
We love our biggest sissy being home....
Best part of the lesson was getting a treat after...they ran out of ice cream, so we had Skittles!
The kid cracks me up with his faces :)
Awww....sweetness...13 years apart, but he sure loves her...and vice versa!
Bonus! Best way to spell your name...with Gummies from Dylan's candy store in NYC!
We played in the sunroom :)
And lined up our "Little Poo Poos" (Little People)
I usually pre-plan a special back-to-school treat....I had no time this year, so I went with what I had in the house....and made smiley apple cake pops and pencil cupcakes. Easy.
My attempt at being creative :) lol....next year I'll do better...
We only had like 10 mins to do a chalk drawing for the school-goers...Loggy helped me :)
I love this kid! I wish we had been able to be outside more this day, but it was like 95 degrees and sooo humid.
Time for pick-up at school! The first time for us not taking the bus home after school on the 1st day...weird. Ash came out first....seemed like the pick-up would be like it normally was (even with new head staff)
Nope, we waited and waited for the other two to emerge...Loggy fell asleep in the extreme heat....
Finally, they came out....pick-up needed some work....but after 4 days I can safely say it is MUCH better! And I do like the safety of it better than before.
Our new mode of transportation to/from school. The kids don't miss the bus, but they do miss riding bikes like we did from the condo. Ash even said a couple times..."why can't I just go to the school behind the trees"...meaning, she wants to ride her bike to the school behind our house....oh well...we will get used to our new routine...
LOL...Shelb truly is our comic relief. I think she liked our sad lil' chalk drawing...which also still has some of daddy's bday chalk drawing on it...
Hays had a semi-lazy day after her busy laundry morning :)
A surprise from Nina and Pops in the mail...very cool Shopkins! She took them for show-n-tell the next day...
I was too lazy to make dinner and I had an Olive Garden coupon...so that was a sign to have OG-to-go! Yummy! It was a great back-to-school meal!
Diggin' in!
And then we drove to Ellettsville for Jiffy Treat ice cream...it might be our new ice cream hang out on this side of town since there is not much over here...yummy! And Ash was the first of the three to have homework....fun homework...to fill a bag with stuff about her....
As much as I dug in my heels with school starting this week, the kids had a great outlook and didn't really complain at all. They all love their teachers, have good friends in their class (though D got split from most of his, but he is so happy-go-lucky, he didn't care!)....anyway....they all had great first days (and 2nd, 3rd, and 4th days)...and our new principal and vice-principal seem great and are running things very smoothly. So, all-in-all, a good first week (though we have one more day to go...)...and it's been great having lazier days at home with my oldest and youngest....but I still wish we had one more month of summer...trying not to be bitter about that....
