Growing Up

Took the boys this morning to their first day of Co-Op at the new location. I figured that Al would be ok, but that DJ may want me to stick around for a while. Boy did I get that wrong! They went in fine, washed hands, moved their names and went about their business. They didn't even really want me to walk around with them to explore what the different rooms had to offer! I was bummed! Guess they are growing up.

Well while the boys were at school and the girls with our sitter I worked more on this pesky dissertation.  Suffice it to say Microsoft Word and I are no longer friends......

So on Tuesday & Thursdays when the boys have Co-Op they get out at 11:30 and S's kindergarten starts at noon at the same location. Today we packed a picnic lunch of hummus, veggies, tortillas and the kids got a juice box. S finished quickly and was really anxious to get into school and get going. When they finally started to let her class in she ran off without even a good-bye! I had to catch her and ask if she wanted a good-bye outside or us to meet her in the classroom when the boys finished up. She asked for an inside good-bye, which was funny, because when we came in she was so engrossed in her book that she didn't really want to say good-bye. :) I can't believe that she is the same child who was a little timid yesterday (literally yesterday) at Kindergarten and today was ready to go without even a by-your-leave........

I have always wanted my kiddos to be independent, but these past two days have been a shocker. They were never super clingy, but this has been surprising. I'm glad that they love their new Co-Op and I like to thank them for some of this independence. It's just been a surprising day.

A new year, a new schedule

So today made me realize that this year is the start of a new world in schedules. Here is a synopsis of today from midnight forward

midnight- pack up from school and head home
1am- turn off light and get some sleep
7:15- wake-up & shower
7:45- get kids awake & dressed & fed
8:45- kids done eating and starting to clean-up breakfast
9:15- out the door to go to swim lessons (mind you the house has to be checked for cleanliness since it is on the market)
9:30-10- boys have swim lessons at YMCA
10:30-11:15 boys took first gymnastics lessons at YMCA
11:15-11:45 leave Y, head home, drop off Al, DJ and B with sitter and leave to take S to kindergarten
12-2:30- kindergarten
3-6 playtime
6- dinner
7- leave to head to school to finish edits on dissertation
midnight- head home!

Whew! I'm beat just looking at that! I am SO thankful that I will be DONE with this dissertation very, very soon, but even without the schooling on my part this is going to be interesting. I am used to the kiddos only going to school 2 days per week, this whole 5 days per week thing is throwing me off already and we have only had 1 day thus far!

So here is my lessons for the day, when scheduling things you MUST remember that your child now attends school everyday!

Kindergarten......day 1

So off she went to school........

But I could pretend it wasn't real today. I took her in, dropped her things off in her cubby, we had a small circle and then a nice parent meeting while the kiddos played. When we finished the parent meeting we had another small circle, then snack and playtime outside. After our adventures outside we had another circle (storytime!) and then went home. So it wasn't a *real* first day was it?

I guess we'll see how tomorrow goes!

S did love it though. I think her biggest "issue" will be that she only really knows one of the girls in the class from last year, but she makes friends pretty quick from what I can tell. The other really good thing is that the class is primarily girls, so lots of great opportunities for her.