This year the first day of school went pretty smoothly. It helped that the triplets had "meet the teacher" night last night. The 4th grade has about 18 classes so the hopes of getting a good friend in your class or a teacher you're hoping for seems pretty slim, but somehow it worked out for Connor, Tanner and Sydney. Before they found out what class they were in they all told me who they wanted to get for a teacher and somehow they got who they wanted! (they based their wishes on how nice some of the teachers were to them in the hall and what they had heard from other kids, except Sydney wanted a particular teacher who she noticed dancing and singing a lot)
Sydney was all about the clothes of coarse. She has begged for converse shoes for a year and I finally relented so the outfit was carefully picked out with the shoes in mind. Sydney also wanted to try a "bag" instead of backpack this year. She has her best friend from last year in her class. Her first words to me about her first day at school were: "my teacher is hyper!" Lots of dancing and singing I guess!
Connor somehow got a teacher from heaven again, who's personality is exactly what he needs. He was not nervous at all this year, but didn't like that the poison ivy he got while camping hadn't gone away yet. His teacher is the former TAG teacher, which was evident on this first half day of school orienting as she somehow had time to do 2 experiments with them involving coke and diet coke.
I told Tanner he could pick out his first day of school clothes if he wanted, something the boys have never cared about doing. He grabbed a star wars/aquarium black t-shirt, looked at me, and then said "hmm, I think I'll wear something nice instead since it's the first day of school" (whew)
Allie tried to con me into a new backpack again this year until I reminded her that last year she got a more expensive backpack with the promise of keeping it more that one year. So she quickly started working the angle that because she wasn't getting a backpack then she surely deserved to get a new pair of $80 shoes for school. What? HAHA! I don't think so. She was excited to welcome new students to school as part of her SGA duties, but was not excited that she had to wear an SGA t-shirt on the first day of school.
Trey was as casual as he was last year, asking me as he walked out the door "what class do I have 4th block again?" I asked him if he wished he was graduated already and going to college instead, to which he quickly replied "no! I'm ready to be a senior!" Excited to go to lunch and the gym after school with friends.
3 comments:
Ahhh. Your first day of school sounds great!! Love the pictures. The only problem is that your children are growing up TOO FAST!!! Can't you slow them down?!
That was a really cute idea for Trey and Allie to wear matching outfits. :)
did you catch that little lesson in how to be a sought after teacher, brad?
btw, i support allie in her $80 shoe request.
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