Not the First but the Second Day of School

Even though it's not "real" school or anything I still get excited when it's the first day of school.  And this year both kiddos are going (yessssssss!) so it's double fun. 

 

I was pretty nervous because Ella will have new teachers and her ones from last year are going to be pretty tough to top.  She had them for a whole year, through summer.  And they straight up rocked.  We have all fallen in love with Ms Amanda and Ms Carolyn.  They are the kind of people I would be friends with if I had met them in the outside world.  And Carolyn has kept both kiddos overnight (gah!) because she's crazy like that.  And Ella doesn't like any sort of change so I just knew this year would be a rough start.

 

Sawyer will have Ella's old nursery teacher Courtney that I love too.  I was more nervous for her since I was bringing her another alert child that has a hard time napping while there are other things going on.  But I figured it anyone can get him to sleep, it would be her.  She always got Ella to sleep, even if they were short naps.

 

On the first day Sawyer did good.  He only slept a total of an hour out of 5 1/2 but that meant when he got home he slept a whopping 4 1/2 hours, woke up 30 minutes before his 9p bedtime and went right back out at 9.  Ditto the second day.

 

Ella has a new routine in the 2's room where they go play outside as soon as the arrive.  So it's wash hands, put your things away and then out to the playground.  She was fine until we went outside and I signed her in.  She started to cry a bit but as soon as I walked away I saw her run off to play.  On the second day I dropped her off, told her to find Marcus (Ana's son that's the same age and one of her buddies) and walked away.  I turned around to see her running to Marcus and playing on the slide with him.  My, my, what a big girl.

 

On the first day pictures apparently were out of the question because, well...Ella is 2 1/2.  That pretty much sums it up.  But the second day she wanted to pose with Sawyer in their UT gear!

 

 

 

She wanted to hold his hand

 

And give him hugs

You can't see it but her shoes and socks have little longhorns on them.  These kids were decked out.

 



 

Cheese face!

Next week is the first full week so eventually I know they'll settle into the routine.  Getting a run in and getting out the door to arrive on time at 9a with two kiddos is way harder that when it was just one.  I can't wait for all the Fall fun to start!