First Day of School!

Today was the first day of school for Riley and Kamryn. Although Riley wants to ride the bus, we compromised and told her that we would take her to school and that she could ride the bus home on most days. She is still really pushing to ride the bus all the time, but I don't think we're going to give in. We dropped off Riley first and this morning was interesting as there were a TON of cars in the drop off line. Also, since it was the first day of school a lot of parents weren't just dropping off, they would wait to try and park somewhere in the small visitors lot and then walk their children into class. There were also people parking in the grass on the road (country road in front of the school) and walking in. It made for a BIG traffic jam and a long process. Hopefully it'll get better and easier as school progresses. Riley, of course, jumped right out and took off to class. She definitely didn't want us to go with her even though it was a new school. I guess she is already too cool for us. I don't know what she's going to do when we show up to volunteer! When asked what her favorite part of the day was, she said lunch. Her class also got to go to art today and she was very excited about that.

Kamryn was dropped off second. At her school, we have to walk her into class. She was more reserved than Riley, but then we got there just in time for class to start. We think we're going to have to drive separate for a little bit to make sure we can get them both there on time. Kamryn found where to hang up her backpack and knew right where to sit. We were anxious to see how she did and couldn't wait to pick her up at noon. She did great and learned about the letter A and numbers 1 & 2. She also got her first Bible verse today, but doesn't seem as excited as Riley did about learning them. Hopefully it was just because she was tired.

Now that school has started, they get two days off for Hurricane Fay. What an interesting and crazy start to the 2008/2009 school year!