They have been SO excited about school. Emmie started saying about halfway through the year last year that she wanted Mrs. Estes for first grade. Thank goodness her wish came true! She is SO excited to have the teacher that she wanted so badly!
Ellie of course wanted the same teacher that Emmie had last year but thashe got someone different. She was okay though because when she went to kindercamp she was in Mrs. Boswell's class and that's who she ended up getting for a teacher. She just loved her at camp and has been really excited about being in her class.
I wish I could have recorded Ellie walking down the hall today to class. She was behind me but I heard someone make a comment about someone being really excited and I turned around and Ellie was clutching her lunchbox with both hands with a grin from ear to ear and had quite the bounce to her step. She was the epitome of "bubbling with excitement"!
We dropped Emmie off first and it was quick and easy. She had some good friends from last year in her class including her buddy Evelyn so she was really excited about that.
Evelyn and Emmie at Meet the Teacher for kindergarten (above) and for 1st grade (below). They have grown up SO much!
We next took Ellie to her class. I was waiting to say hi to the teacher and Ellie just walked over to the cubbies and started putting her stuff up...she's got this kindergarten thing all figured out already!
Ruthie was a bit sad that she didn't get to go to school. She did get to take her backpack with her this morning because we were going to the Y so I could swim. She was a bit put out that she didn't get to take lunch with her. However, I fixed her lunch in a lunchbox so that she wouldn't feel too left out!
When we picked the girls up they talked all the way home about what a great day they'd had! Emmie's told me all about "first grade procedures" and apparently they played some fun games but I didn't hear a word about that (found out from Evelyn's mom)...my poor Type A child.
Ellie told me her favorite part of the day was singing. Apparently they sang lots of songs in their classroom including one that she knew from preschool.
Ruthie's favorite part of the day was not having to share toys! When we got home from the Y she very quickly disappeared upstairs to play with all the toys all by herself!
JP was pretty happy to get an earlier than normal nap today AND he only had one extra mama most of the day!
My favorite thing was only having to pick up and drop off at one school! It made the morning SO much less hectic!
We had a great first day of school and looking forward to a wonderful year! Tomorrow morning I will drop them off at the front of the school. I cried the first time I did this with Emmie because she looked so little and lost! Tomorrow should be much better...Emmie knows where she's going and Ellie's classroom is on the way to Emmie's class so I know Emmie will make sure Ellie gets to class.
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