First Day of School

I've spent the last couple months of summer solemn about school and overwhelmed with the "where did the last 5 1/2 years go" feelings. When it came down to it though I was so excited to see Davis off to his first day of Kindergarten and I'm so excited to see what God will do through this next stage of his life.

The brothers have not really adjusted to the new school routine yet. Grayson has to be pulled out of bed and thrown in the car in jammies on school days and he is still not a fan.

Davis gets to attend Crossroads Community School with his cousin Eli and knowing that E is across the hall is very reassuring to him. I'm so glad that he has such a great big cousin to look up to and I know that Eli looks out for him.

I'm so proud of Davis and I'm so very, very thankful that God made him my son and has entrusted Mark and I to shepherd him. I know that God is going to use this school and this experience to work out great things in Davis' life. It is so fun to see him excited to learn new things.

He has two friends in his class from our church, Zoe and Noah.

Things from the first week of school:

-Parker was surprisingly much more tearful than me on the first day of school. He started crying when we walked out of the school hall and was solemn and tearful for much of the morning - poor sugar. He kept saying that he missed Davis and wished Davis could be with us.

-The hardest part for me about that first morning was watching Davis get very teary eyes, but trying to hide and pull back the tears to pretend he wasn't sad. It broke my heart to watch him work through that and try so hard to be brave. I'm glad for this for him at the same time. All three days of the first week he had this same type of morning, but this week on the first day he seemed so much more confidant. YEAH!

-Thursday when I picked him up (day 2) he had had music class and he was smiling from ear to ear - so excited - to tell me about music class and his music teacher Mrs. Grigg. He LOVED music and the "songs about summer" that they sang and the "funny stories about her very tall husband" (?) that the teacher had told them.

-Friday (day 3) he worked with the math tubs for the first time and he absolutely loved it. He got to work on counting and adding with beads and colored stones . . no surprise that he loved that!

-Davis is in a very unique program that allows me to partner in his learning. He completes 3 days a week in the classroom and we do two full days of school here at home. It took me 3 1 /2 hours to complete home school for the first time this week. Wasn't expecting that! I have much to learn through this process too. I LOVE to watch him learn and to see some of those things happening first hand at home is such a blessing to me.

-We read tonight before bed and Davis was already reading more words than he knew last week. Crazy how fast he is picking things up. I have learned that my son is a very good memorizer - not a bad thing.

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