Back to School

Carter is generally up with the chickens! When I woke him up this morning he said, "Can't I sleep for a few more minutes?" 

We made a special pilgrimage to Toys R Us for an Angry Birds backpack. Once we were there Carter wanted a SkyLanders backpack. I that was the first time I have ever totally vetoed one of Carter's choices. I hear enough whining about wanting the SkyLanders game. I felt like having a backpack with SkyLanders on it would only making the whining about wanting SkyLanders worse. We compromised on a Mario backpack and now the whining about the Wii has intensified! 

 Taking photos with funny faces is the only way that Carter will agree to photos.

 Reading at "the pond" before school begins.

When we arrived at school Carter went straight for the trains. He teacher very sweetly told him he needed to go sit in "the pond" and read until class was ready to begin. I wanted to tell the teacher to leave my baby alone and let him play with whatever he wanted! Good thing she is nice!

 Mrs. Tracy teaches the boys what to do when they "tee-tee" on the toilet seat.

 The first book was Don't Eat the Teacher. I stood by the classroom sink and cried because that I was leaving my baby with the public school system, because he is six, because he can function without me, and because him growing up sort of sucks!

Singing the "Good Morning" song. This was super sweet.

Rebecca, Ian's mom, is experienced at this first day of school stuff. Her oldest is in 7th grade and her youngest is AJ's age. She was kind to me and offered her shoulder for me to cry on. I stayed till 8:30 when the class left for Library. I must have wondered how Carter's day was going 1 million times before it was time to pick him up. I got to the school 20 minutes early so I could be the first in line to pick up kids. However, there were at least 40 cars in front of me!

Mrs. Tracy also told Carter he had to tuck in his shirt to stay with her at school. He was pretty willing, but it was funny to see him with it tucked in. We just aren't a tucked in kind of family. 

Carter doesn't tell us much about his day. He did say he painted, colored, went to French class, read to himself during DEAR time (drop everything and read), and stayed OUT of trouble! Monday is the first day with all 20 of the kids. The school is having a boo-hoo breakfast. I'm crying just writing this so I'm sure I will be crying again Monday.