First Day of School 2011

In preparation for school I have been making the boys back up their bedtime from 10:30ish to 9pm sharp. They haven't been real happy about it until the night before school came and they had to get in bed at 8:30 sharp while the sun was still out! What they didn't remember is that 6:40am comes really early:) I went in the room singing a made up song about getting up and getting ready for 1st and 4th grade. I cringed with them as they hovered under their covers hiding because my grandmother would wake me up like that and as much as I love her...I hated those songs! They finally rolled out of bed and got dressed and came to the kitchen to find...scrambled eggs, bacon, toast, strawberries, orange juice, and milk. A shocker to almost everyone in the house because I hate to get up early much less any earlier to put that together:) It was for a good cause though...my precious boys' tummies. We snapped a few pics at home and off the entire family of 5 went to drop everyone off at school. The traffic was absolutely horrible...we probably should have walked. Grant went right on in sat down and began working without really saying goodbye. Preston needed some coercing to go sit down and get busy coloring. He is my outgoing when you get to know him, but starts off VERY shy kid. I hurt for him, but gave him a quick pep talk in his ear and sat him down and didn't look back. Up the stairs we went to drop off Connor-man and without saying bye he walked into his room and was gone. His teacher met Doug and off we went. It makes me so sad to know that Connor is almost 1/3 of the way done with school and to know that the twins are becoming more and more independent. I am so proud of them and can't wait to see how this school year turns out!

Breakfast time...the twins were not allowed to wear their shirts at meal time for fear they would dirty them before school:)

First, Fourth, First

Showing off their backpacks

Preston putting his stuff away in locker #1

Grant ready to go

There are no pics of Connor once we got to school. I didn't even ask because I didn't want to embarrass him...so this is the pic of the banner to his hallway:)