A Great First Week!

I was so utterly exhausted at the beginning of the week, that all you got from me was a bunch of pictures from the first day of school. I couldnt' think to write at that point, but at least you got pictures! We spent the weekend in NY, visiting the church and community that has issued Nate the call. Going three timezones away and then back with a jam packed schedule in between, with kids, was enough to make me crazy and seriously tired. I was proud of myself for getting two children off to their first day of school with clean clothes, clean bodies, and food for lunch.

The first day of school and all the others this week have gone really well. I am thankful to have kids that adjust easily to new schedules and they just kind of rolled with the punches this week.

Abby came home from the first day of school and announced that she had learned to read that day:) The next day, she told me that she read a whole book to her friends! Funny . . . I think she just wants to be like her big sister.

I don't know what any of her friends names are because she only refers to them as "the purple one" or "the blue one." I think that relates to the color of clothing they had on that day, but then it probably changes day to day. So I have to get on the ball and learn some of the kids' names!

Jenna loves her teacher and has some friends from church and preschool in her class, which helps in this new situation. She is a little worried about the amount of playtime they get each day. She doesn't like the fact that they don't get to play as much as they did in preschool. She says they have real schoolwork to do now! Her other concern is with all of the rules and procedures she has not know. The second day, she told me that her teacher just keeps telling her all these things that she has to remember and she just can't keep them all straight!

The other interesting piece of her first week of Kindergarten is that she apparently has a boyfriend. Kinda. Here's how the conversation went in the car yesterday.

Jenna: Guess what?
Me: What?
Jenna: I have a boyfriend. Well, not really, but kinda.
Nate: You have a boyfriend, do you? Who is this boy?
Jenna: Well, this boy Tyler calls me his girlfriend. And he's real little and shy and I don't want to hurt his feelings so I said okay.
Nate: You tell Tyler that he needs to talk to me before he can be your boyfriend.
Jenna: Maybe I'll tell him I can't be his girlfriend!

So there you have it. Lots happening the first week of school.

And I absolutely love everything about this Kindergarten thing. I love taking her to school, making her lunch, packing it in her cute little lunch box. I love writing love notes on her napkins. I love that she wears uniforms and looks like a little school girl. I love the "too big for my back" backpack that carries a measely folder to and from school. I just love being a mommy of a school aged kid. So far!