Three Recesses!

So, sometimes I think my BRILLIANT 6 year old has a momentary lapse of, ahem, brilliant-ness. Lately, we've been talking about the fact that first graders stay all day, and don't come home from school until 2:30. He's SUPER stoked about the fact that he is now getting 3 recesses. What he doesn't seem to get is that he now has to stay at school and WORK for 3 more hours. Hmmmm. Well, heck, if he doesn't get it I'm certainly not going to be the Debbie Downer!

So, that said, here are some photos from the first day of school. Aidan was SO excited to finally get to use his backpack. So big, all of a sudden! We had such a great, smooth first day of school. Chloe actually slept in and had to be woken up to get in the car, which allowed us a peaceful, no screaming breakfast. After dropping off "the Bigs" (to coin a Sarri phrase) Amy B. and I met Caroline at Starbucks - our boys are all in the same class for the second year in a row, and we got a chance to chat and have coffee with only 4 kids in tow. Hmmm. Not quite as easy as we'd hoped.

Then, at 12:15 Amy and I dropped Luke and Aidan at school. We walked out to the playground with just James and Chloe. All of a sudden we looked at each other and went "Huh. It's quiet." I think this will take some getting used to! Oh, wait. I'm used to it now. That was easy. I helped Amy rearrange the furniture in their new rental (so CUTE) and suddenly, it was 2:30! We picked everyone up at 2:45 and hit Serendipity (our favorite little ice cream shop) for a celebratory ice cream.

Shawn was there in spirit - he was pretty bummed that he has to miss the first week of school, but he got invited to a manager's yearly kickoff in San Fran, and since he's not really an OFFICIAL manager yet, he figured that was a good thing. He should probably go. However, I'm sure he's heaping on the guilt as we speak. Really, babe - they're fine. No worries!