Since we are now over half-way through the school year....

Here are the first day of school pictures!!

The boys started school on Sept. 3 - new city, new house, and new schools.  Joshua had had a new student/welcome to middle school BBQ the week before, so I took pictures of him opening his locker and in front of the school then so we didn't embarrass him his first day :) Hard to believe that he's already in sixth grade (OK, now he's half way through it)...it doesn't seem like that long ago we took him to his first day of kindergarten in Winters.

 

Nathaniel was so excited to start second grade at a new school and meet new friends. Unfortunately, he got sick within the first couple of weeks (strep, double ear infection) and has had a hard time adjusting since then, though he loves his teacher and has some friends.

Almost every day he doesn't want to go to school, yet every day when we pick him up he says he had the best day ever and likes school :)

It has been quite a difference for both boys to go to schools that each have more people in the school than the populations of either of the towns we've lived in the past five years! But now, over half-way through the school year, we're kinda' getting used to things, though we miss all the friendly faces, smiles, hellos, etc. that greeted any of us in the halls of Etna Elementary.

And then of course, there's Miss Grace. She has been dying to start preschool at home with Mommy like the boys did. I put her off until the first of October - in hopes I'd be done unpacking and organized by then...I wasn't, and Nathaniel was sick - in the middle of about ten days of being home -which didn't help preschool much at all. Once he was finally totally healthy it was November and holidays and now it's mid-February and we're trying to get back on track. But she's been working really hard when we do have preschool and loves it.

 

With her birthday being mid/late September, she gets to spend another year at home with Mommy since the cut off date is September 1st.

Neither of us are sure how we feel about that, she wants to go to school when she turns five like the boys did, and so do I. But I think we'll enjoy another year of just us...and hopefully Mommy will be better organized by then!