FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! AH!

We've waiting a long time for this day! Cecelia was so excited to finally be joining her big brother at the elementary school, she had a smile GLUED to her face for an entire 24 hours before she woke for school this morning. She had her clothes picked out, down to the hair bow. She is doing GREAT and LOVES LOVES LOVES her teacher, Mrs. Claudia Marshall. We were very blessed to get one of the teachers we really wanted for her. She is also REALLY looking forward to riding the bus home, unlike her brother who has an understanding that the bus takes almost a FULL hour longer to get to the house. UGH.

SMOKES he looks older. Anyway. Brendan is going into the 2nd grade and was a wee bit nervous about this. Apparently last year, there was a girl who got transfered into Brendan's First grade class FROM the 2nd grade because she just wasnt' ready to move up. So he is under the impression that 2nd grade is REALLY REALLY hard. We had a fantastic first week, and have allayed some of those fears. He seems to get that it's not as hard as he thought, and that this might just be a good year (minus the bus).

My big kids!

Here they are getting ready to go into school on their first day. The school brought out the BIG GUNS with the school mascot. They were so excited to get their picture taken with "it". Of course, later that morning Brendan saw the mascot take off it's head piece completely destroying the magic. (They should take a page from Disney World regarding their characters!) So now anytime he sees a costumed character he screams "you're a sham!" Great.