First day of school

Here's our big Kindergartner..................

He was so excited this morning. He woke up at 7:15 then went straight into his closet to pick out his clothes. I went upstairs to see what he was doing and he was told me he had to hurry up and get dressed because he didn't want to be late. I told him we had to eat breakfast and take a bath before he got dressed. He looked at me confused because he has absolutely no concept of time.

We ate breakfast together then both the boys took a bath. I had him ready for school by 8:30 so it gave me 10 minutes to finish up getting ready physically and mentally. I was okay until I talked to my Mom, then I lost it. I called Brian and told him Kaleb was going to have to wait until next year to start Kindergarten and that I was keeping him home with me. He laughed and tried to give me a pep talk. I got annoyed and got off the phone because it wasn't what I wanted to hear. It took about 5 minutes to it together, then we headed out the door.

School's only 3 minutes away so it didn't take but a second to get there. I parked the truck then headed inside. His teacher was extremely nice. Only four boys were there today so they could get to know each other. Two of the Mom's were in there when I arrived. I knelt down to fill out some paperwork and was very impressed at myself. I was FINE. Then the lady beside me asked if Kaleb was my oldest. I felt the tears coming and looked up and said I don't wanna talk about it. She changed the subject extremely fast so i only had a couple of tears fall. I took a picture with the boys then bolted out the door. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. Honestly, I didn't shed anymore tears after that. Come Monday, we shall see!

Austin's been wanting to go to the zoo for awhile, but Kaleb thinks the zoo smells and doesn't like to go. As soon as I asked Austin what he wanted to do today he screamed THE ZOO! So, off we went. I kept thinking it was going to rain but it never did. It was a wonderful day to go because it was overcast and only about 82 degrees. The humidity was horrible but at least the sun wasn't beaming on us.

We live to close to ride the bus so we either have to walk,wait in the LONG carpool line, or park and wait for him. I decided to park and wait. I arrived about 3:45 then headed up to the crossing guard. I know one person who lives in my neighborhood and luckily, she was standing there. She told me what to expect and introduced me to about 15 mom's from my neighborhood. I even met the lady that lives across the street from me! At 4:00 you see a pack of kids walking towards us. The big kids were in the front and I was stressing out that I couldn't see Kaleb. As they got closer, I saw two little boys holding a teacher's hand at the very back of the group. Apparently, Kindergartner's have to walk with the teacher so I'm good with that. Kaleb came walking up to us with the biggest grin on his face. He was so proud of himself and I don't think I could have been any prouder of him either.

He got an E in conduct(thank God) and a lot of papers were sent home. They went on a scavenger hunt around school looking for raccoons. It was an entertaining way for them to tour the school so he got a kick out of that. I asked him if he liked his teacher and he said he did but she was sick today. I asked what was wrong with her and he told me she's just old(she's about my age). He thought his teacher was just like his last teacher in preschool. They have the same voice, make him do the same things, and she's old just like Ms. Faye was. He decided he liked her but she needs to take medicine because of her age(I have no idea where this is coming from).

We had to go over the rules of conduct, I had to sign it, then send it back to the teacher. While I was reading it to him, his eyes got big and he took a deep breath. I said "what's wrong"? He looked at me frighted and said "I didn't want you to see that. I was going to throw that away so you wouldn't know if I got my bear changed". Then we had to have another talk.......
Thankfully, he doesn't ride the bus and a teacher has to hold his hand until he gets to me!

I asked him if he got in trouble and he said he didn't but the other 3 boys did. Apparently, the teacher left the room during "a really long rest time, the longest one you've ever seen". All 4 of the boys got up and Kaleb peeked out the door looking for the teacher. He saw her and ran back to his towel because he "was sneaking". The other 3 were still running around when she walked in the room so they got in trouble. I'm not sure how much I believe, but this is all I could pull out of him. At least he got an E for conduct!