Big Kids

They're growing up.

Everyone was busy posting pictures of their kids on the first days of school, and here I am, a little late. But I did take the pictures.  The kids were a little nervous heading off the first day.  They got on the bus and headed in - I didn't even go in this year to just be there.  I felt a little bad about it, but they made it through the day fine.
One day I told Adina when she got off the bus,

 "Oh, how are you? I've missed you so much today. Did you miss me?"

She replied, "No."

I thought I misheard her...I said, "Did you miss me today?"

She answered, "No, Mom, we're in the SAME town."

Oh. Ok.  I guess she's feeling safe and secure at school and it's fun and busy enough where Mom isn't missed.  It's a good thing, I know. :)

And she's got her first set of spelling words this week, too.  So we've been practicing reading them, writing them and spelling them out loud.  Yesterday, she took a practice test at school.  I asked her how it went.  Her response was, "I did HORRIBLE. I got every one of them wrong."  I thought to myself that we'd have a lot of work to do last night to get her feeling ready for today.  When we got home, I looked in her folder from school.  She got 8/10 on her test...hardly horrible and only 2 wrong.  Haha...Matt and I laughed about that one.

Here are some pictures of Clarence and Adina's first day last week and Clifford's first day this week.  Cliff's first day, he woke up stubborn and determined to stay home.  By the time he'd eaten a pancake and was dressed, he was ready.  And so cute.  He rode the bus really well and I met him at school to get him situated in his classroom.  He's kind of quiet, but says he likes school, and I think he just likes to watch kids and see what they're playing.

Clancy and I are having fun hanging out together...and he really loves doing all kinds of farm work, so having to be home by himself with just Mom and Dad a few hours a week isn't going to be too hard on him.

Have a fabulous weekend, and eat some beef today!