Back to School, FINALLY!

I am not sure if I will ever get used to the Washington school schedule.  We are in school until late June.  Then we don't start until early Sept.  My internal clock is done with school in late May/early June.  My internal clock is done with summer in late Aug.  I need to adapt because those conflicting weeks seem REALLY long.  But, even though it came about 2 weeks too late for me, we finally started school.  And it was a pretty successful start.

Sarah drew her sign.  She is heading into 1rst grade.  Love her spelling.  And the peace signs.  She wore her cute new Hannah Anderson outfit and it ended up being about 30 degrees too warm for the outfit.  But she was stylin'.  (And I got an earful on the way home for letting her wear something so HOT.)  She is excited about her teacher and about being in the Highly Capable Program.  The other day she said she was excited to go back to school so she could help out the kids in her class again, we told her the kids around her might not need as much help this year, LOL.    

Libby was pretty excited for her first day.  She rolled out of bed and put on a old Husky t-shirt and one of her older pairs of pants.  I was going to let it slide, but Derek made her change into one of her new school outfits.  Hand-me-down jeans from her friend (that look awesome on her) and a cheesy OLAF love shirt from Target that I didn't want to buy her.  Sigh.  She is really upset that she got the same teacher from 1st grade instead of the other 3rd grade teacher, who happens to be a wrestling mom she has known "since she was born."  But she is getting over the disappointment I think.  Her main comment about the 1st day was that she only got 2 minutes of recess.  We can tell what she cares about most at school.  

This is Ben's first day of school, the girls' 2nd day.  He was so excited that I couldn't get him to stop and take a picture.  

Sarah's second day outfit....STRIPES!

Ben's choice for a school shirt.  Later GATOR!  And he was off into his classroom with a kiss and a hug and no crying.  

His HULK backpack.  

And he got lunch at McDonald's after his first day.  Lucky duck.  Here was his comment after the first day..."I'm getting dumber.  They treated us just like babies and sang stupid songs."  Oh my.  This is going to be a long 2  years.