Labor Day...
We left the cabin at 1:00 pm and we arrived home at 3:40 pm. It was a nice drive but felt weird that we weren't driving back to Isle. It was our first drive to Lakeville from Big Sandy and after a long weekend ending summer it just felt weird. It was weird to not have a pot luck to go to.
Our neighborhood was pretty quiet and right after we got out of the car Isaiah came over to say hi to the girls. Robert unloaded the car and I caught with Kirsten, we chatted about the kids first day of kindergarten. I ran to Target quickly and weaved through the masses to gather last minute supplies for Hadleys big day. After I got home we made tacos for dinner and the kids played together in the back yard. Around 7:15 pm we started the bedtime routine. Hadley kept saying, "tomorrow is my big day!" She fell asleep around 8:30 pm. I watched her sleep a little, my last night as my baby girl. I knew that after her first day of kindergarten she would grow up overnight.
September 2nd, 2014
First Day Morning:
Well Hadley woke up on her own around 7:00 am. She made her bed perfectly, put her throw pillows in place and put her dolls and ducky in the middle. She was focused. I could tell she was a little nervous. Daddy kissed her goodbye and went to work. Hadley had breakfast, she wanted oatmeal. She ate about half and drank a little water and OJ. She then brushed her teeth and got dressed. We had already laid out her outfit. After she got dressed we did her hair in a small braid to get her bangs out of the way. We took pictures and afterwards Hadley and Ellie ran around the yard. The neighbor kids came out to play too. More pictures. We left the house at 8:40 am to get to the school on time. It felt like a parade of students on their first day. Milt was outside and he waved as we trotted down Gannon Ave. The parade consisted of Hadley, Ellie, myself, Kirsten, Erik, Isaiah, Melena, Lucy, Krista, Hunter and Maddie. It was slow going all the way to school. As Isaiah and Hadley walked they held hands because they were already "kindergarten buddies."
We arrived at the school on time. Found Hadleys teacher and she waited in line to head inside.
Midday:
Ellie and I attended the ECFE open house. We signed Ellie up for Thursday afternoon pre-school with parent class. It is 2 hours long. Then we had lunch with Anne and Rory and Anne dropped us off at Daddy's work. We got our car and headed back home to get a couple more lunch box supplies and groceries at Target. Ellie skipped nap time.
End of School day:
We went to pick up big sister at 3:20 pm. We walked with the same crew as the morning. We found Hadley and Isaiah and attempted to bypass all the pick-up/bus chaos! WOW... now I can see how kids get on the wrong bus. But hopefully that didn't happen. Hadley looked like she had a fun day. I didn't ask her too many questions because I didn't want her to have to answer Mommy and Daddy twice so we waited until Daddy came home for questions. She immediately stated she wanted hot lunch at school and that she like recess the best.
That evening we played with the neighbor kids. Hadley officially decided to try out the lunch line. She said she wanted a tray. She told us that her thermos leaked and chocolate milk got all over her backpack, lunch bag and her rest towel. Her teacher told her she would take it home and wash it. We had hamburgers for dinner and ate outside.
Her teacher sent out an email:
Hi Families,
We had such a great first day of
kindergarten! :) The children quickly started picking up on the
routines and worked hard all day! We also read some stories, drew a
picture of how we looked today, sang songs and talked about
our math tools!
I have made another change in our daily schedule. I moved our snack time up so we will now have snack at 2:00.
Tomorrow morning, I will be outside holding the
red square again!
I replied back with a big thanks for the updates and another thanks for washing her towel. I have been really impressed with her teacher and how much she communicates with us. I love that she sends us emails, it is so helpful, especially for us so called helicopter parents.
Her response back to me:
Hi Genal,
I'm glad you like the updates! I will be sending a weekly email every Friday as well. No problem about the towel! I felt bad it was all wet. Hadley is such a sweetheart!
I'm glad you like the updates! I will be sending a weekly email every Friday as well. No problem about the towel! I felt bad it was all wet. Hadley is such a sweetheart!
Have a great night,
My reaction: A huge smile and warm thoughts that she thinks Hadley is a sweetheart.
Day 2:
We walked Hadley to school in the rain with Daddy and the crew. Ellie and I took it easy, we organized, worked on coloring, the letter A and read a book. I worked on entering events into the calendar to stay on track.
Today is more of a normal day for us at home. Ellie is napping. It is quiet here today, rainy, cloudy and missing our sweetheart!
