First Day of School

Okay, the first day was a couple weeks ago but now that "B" has finally settled into his school and not having a nervous breakdown every morning...I feel more like writing about it.  

"B" had a VERY hard time on his first day.  Actually the entire first week was rough.  He would wake up at 5:00 A.M. crying about not wanting to go to school.  He wouldn't eat breakfast because he felt sick, told me there were "too many recesses" and he just wanted to stay in the classroom and finish his work so he could come home faster.  Even going so far as to tell me, "I wish you didn't push me out of your tummy first so I wouldn't have to go to school first."  All things that pretty much just want to break a mother's heart.  

The morning started off fine.  New outfit, new shoes, little bit of nervousness but mostly just excitement.  Observe:

Once we got to the school and the bell rang...it was all downhill from there:

It was just very hard for him to adjust to being gone all day long.  That combined with eating lunch away from home, riding the bus to and from school...all big changes for a kid who DOESN'T like change.  (poor thing, I'm the same way)  

On a more positive note, I'm surprised at how fast they are moving along for Kindergarten!  He is learning so much and I feel confident that I picked the right school for him.  

Now switching over to "T"'s first day of school.   He is the COMPLETE opposite of "B", in every way.  This kid could not wait to get there.  He literally ran into the classroom without a second look back at mom.  I had to hunt him down for a good-bye kiss.  He then told me, "Mommy, I will miss you.  But I'm going to have fun."  And that was that!  

Now for "S"'s first day of school.  Yes, you read that right.  See for yourself:

No noisy, loud, obnoxious brothers to take toys away, scream during his favorite movie, sit on his favorite chair, take away all the toys, or knock him down on accident (or sometimes on purpose).  I think he's going to like school the most out of all of them!  

It's SO weird to just have one child home 4 mornings a week.  Easy.  It's funny how your perspective changes over time with the more kids you have.  When it was just "B" at home, I used to think how hard it was, and it WAS hard at that time!  But now with 3 boys, I'm really enjoying this one-on-one time with just me and my baby.  And I can tell he loves it too!

It's almost over...

(**NOTE**  I wrote this a couple days ago and thought blogger screwed up and erased it.  Duh...it auto saved.  Anyway, here is it for your viewing pleasure.  First day of school was today, hopefully a post on that will be coming soon.)

Summer vacation that is!  School starts Wednesday and I have to admit, I have mixed feelings about it.  On the one hand, WOOHOO!!  "B" is starting Kindergarten full day, and "T" is starting a new preschool where he will be gone 4 mornings a week!  This means I'll only have one child at home 4 mornings a week.  I am looking forward to that.  I laugh when I look back on the days of having only one child, and how hard I thought it was.  If I only knew what was in store for me...  I guess that's why I never had twins, I needed a slow adjustment to "crazy".  

I am also nervous about school starting because I'm going to miss the little stinkers.  As hard as it is keeping them entertained and behaving, they are fun and pretty dang cute and I love them.  I guess that's why I had kids in the first place right?  haha...  Anyway, I just hope they behave at school ("T" mostly) and that they don't get picked on or don't pick on other kids ("T" again).  

Can you believe that I have ALL of "B"'s school clothes for this year, and didn't have to go shopping at all?  Yes, thanks to my obsession with clearance rack shopping all year long, I had his ENTIRE school wardrobe completely taken care of.  This includes 5 pairs of jeans, and about 10 shirts, which I probably spent under $50 for total.  I must say, I am very proud of myself.  Especially considering the fact that he seriously skipped an entire size this summer alone.  That kid is huge!!  Not even 6 years old and already wearing a size 7?!  Yikes.

I am doing a lot of reorganizing around my house, which has been fun and stressful.  Can I just say that I HATE clutter?  Yeah.  I do.  If I wasn't married and didn't have kids, my house would be perfectly clean and clutter-free.  But...instead I'll just buy lots of plastic storage bins and cabinet shelves.  Out of sight, out of mind right?  

We also are putting "B" and "T" into the same room.  It is not going well.  In fact, I'm off to enforce the law right now.  GO TO SLEEP ALREADY!!!  

Grrr...