The First Day of School. 2013.

So!  It's that time of year again.  Time for the obligatory First Day of School Post:

This year I was just as excited as last year but for completely different reasons.  My poor girl has been stuck home with me and the boys for weeks now.  And WOW was she bored.  I tried.  We did lots of fun things and went lots of fun places.  But honestly there's only so much I can do with 2 other little ones vying for my attention.  Girl needs intellectual stimulation that does not come from just me.

She insisted on posing like this.  Apparently we were doing a first day editorial shoot.

This year Preschool  is 4 days instead of 3.  And it's an hour longer and much more real.  The philosophy is that they are kindergarten trainees.  See kindergarten these days is what first grade was back when I was a kid.  So this gets them ready for that.  And let me tell you she is SO READY.  She wants to learn. She wants to be a big kid. BRING. IT. ON.

She was mildly nervous before she saw her classroom and met her teacher.  But once she did that she was fine.  No real first day jitters at all.

So the thing I was most worried about this year was this:

First day of the carline with THREE of them.

Getting everyone dressed, fed, prepared and out.  Mornings in this house are intense.  But it's not so much the addition of another kid as the fact that this year one of them is a 2 year old.  I basically need a combo of jedi mind tricks and witchcraft to get him moving in the morning.  Also someone was NOT OK with being left behind:

MINE SCHOOL.  ME SCHOOL.  WAIT ME NEEAH!  MINE SCHOOOOOL!!!!

Yeah.  Poor dude was beside himself the first day.  So to make him feel better we did this:

ROCKS WATER!

He ended up so muddy he rode home in just his underwear.  Perfect attire for a popsicle snack (ssshhh don't tell his sister):

The next day he was fine with leaving the girl at school.  Heh.  And what's extra cute is seeing him step up as a big brother now that his sister isn't around:

I think I'm going to have fun rolling with my boys this year.

And when they were reunited they had a whole conversation comparing their mornings that was basically the most adorable thing that's ever happened.

So yeah. Yay school!

this photo has nothing to do with school.  BABYSMILES ZOMG!