Time to let go - a little

Well - today was the day! Like so many others - I watched my little boy head off to school. His first day of real school ever! The beginning of a lifetime of learning! Wow! I am not sure it has hit him yet that this is an everyday thing just yet (heck - I don't know that it has truly hit me yet).

So I took he and Lexi to McD's for a first day of school lunch and then headed home to wait for the bus. The neighbor boy, Tristen, who we found out was in his class, came over 20 minutes early cause he was so excited to go to school with Logan. Logan was ready to get going and get his day started! Todd came home for lunch so he, Lexi, Logan & I and Tristen, his mom and dad - all stood at the corner waiting for the bus and we all got excited when we saw it coming. Then the boys climbed up on the bus and so nicely paused for us to take photos of them as they were climbing on (Tristen's mom is a scrapbooker also). They were the first ones on a took a seat together three rows back. I talked alittle to the bus driver and then asked if I could climb on and take a photo. WOW! It really strikes you when you see that they are barely even tall enough to have their eyes over the top of the seat in front of them! And he is going to school? Unbelieveable!



After saying goodbye (more about that at the end) - Lexi and I decided to race to the school to see Logan get off the bus and get a picture of him walking into the school for the first time. Logan saw us and waved and then just headed on in for his day! We obviously were not a distraction for him! I guess that is a good thing...


So along comes 4 o'clock and time to go wait at the corner again for him to get off the bus. In the afternoon they have all the elementary kids (not just Kindergarten) so the bus was full. Logan & Tristen were in the first seat and the first off. So I took a photo (of course) and then hugged Logan and asked if he had a good day and he says "I had fun riding the bus!". So do you think this a sign of things to come?

So then I started asking him about his whole day and this is about our conversation:
- what did you do at school?
- Do you want to know what I had for an afternoon snack?
- of course what did you have?
- well they had hamburgers but I said I didn't want one of those so I had carrots and peaches. And we have a block that we have to put in this little box each day to say what kind of drink we want. There is orange juice, chocolate milk, just milk, and green for bringing drink. I had Orange juice!
- okay, so what else did you do today?
- my shoes came untied 2 times so I had that other teacher tie them the first time and then I had Ms. Kennet tie them the next time.
- That's great, what else?
- well we talked some.
- did you play or draw or go to gym or anything?
- I don't know.

Thus ended our conversation! What a plethora of information he is!! (Mom and Dad - does that conversation remind you of someone?) When Todd got home we did manage to get a little more info out of him like he has to say "no thank you" if he doesn't want a certain food item and that the teacher read a book about names. Wow!! It is amazing how little can get done in 3 hours!! hee-hee

But he says he had fun and he seems excited about tomorrow so I guess that is the best thing possible! It is unbelievable that my little boy is in school but I did very good and did not get too emotional. Now most of that was because I was in pain!! (here is the rest of the story) So as I was climbing off the bus and talking to the bus driver, on the last step I stepped on the side of my ankle and fell HARD on my butt in the road and threw the camera in a patch of grass. So my emotions were dampered by the xtreme pain in my ankle and the major embarrasment I was suffering. The only thankful thing was that Tristen's dad did not get me on his videotape!!! So I missed out on knowing what direction my emotions would have gone. Maybe that is a good thing??????

Just wanted to let you all know how his day went and hope everyone else's school experiences were fun (and not painful). Have a great week! We will keep our fingers crossed that Logan's enthusiasm stays up!