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First Day of First Grade

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Yesterday was Brooke’s first day of first grade!  I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that she’s already back in school.  It’s kind of nice though because it’s been so hot around here anyway that we haven’t wanted to do anything, so I guess she might as well be in school.  She has a break in September and we plan to live it up big at that time!

I wasn’t anticipating the transition from kindergarten to first grade to be so drastic, but it is!  She goes all day!  She eats lunch in the cafeteria!  She has three recesses!  This is all very good and exciting, but I feel like I’m hardly ever going to see her anymore!  I’m assured by other moms that I’ll get used to this plenty fast, but until then, I’m mourning the loss of our mornings together.  It’s so strange to only have Caroline and Spencer.  Our mornings are so…quiet.  At lunch I look around wondering where the third mouth is to feed.  This is strange territory.

I think Brooke is liking school well enough.  She doesn’t say much about it so it’s hard to know for sure.  She has two teachers – an English teacher and a French teacher.  Her French teacher only speaks French to them (and around them.  We had a short parent meeting on the first day and the French teacher only spoke French when orienting us, the parents!)

Brooke seems to have completely recovered from her sickness (though she is still on medication).  I’m glad she was feeling well enough to start school.

Here she is all ready to scooter to school:

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Golden Art

I’ve been storing up kid artwork for a while, so here’s a post dedicated to our aspiring artists/graphic novelists.

Brooke’s school papers continue to be used (for better or for worse) as her sketch pad:

Holidays bring out her creativity:

She saw our bananas and couldn’t resist giving them a little personality:

And then we have the endless doodles and comics she draws on every scrap of paper she can find:

Caroline isn’t quite as prolific of an artist, but she does do cute drawings as well:

Spencer enjoys drawing also. Here we have a self portrait:

Another child who can’t resist doodling at school:

Spencer went through a phase where he was really into flags. He’d look up pictures of different flags and recreate them in miniature:

Lately Madison has been joining the artistic ranks.

Madison drew this one in church. Her friend Norah is sad, so she’s giving Norah a doll to make her happy:

This princess got caught in a rainstorm and wasn’t happy:

Madison brought this paper home from preschool. I was shocked at the adorableness of that zebra and had to text her preschool teacher to see if Madison actually drew that. Turns out she did draw it all by herself. It’s especially surprising how good her zebra is when you compare it to the other two animal blobs beside it.

One day we played Pictionary as a family. We told Madison she could draw whatever she wanted. The category was “animal.” She drew this:

After guessing every animal we could think of we finally asked Madison what it was. Her response? A giraffe. I continue to chuckle to myself every time I think of her neckless giraffe.

2 Comments

  1. sarah
    July 26, 2013 @ 10:04 pm

    Oh! I love back to school pictures. I loved your comment, “wondering where the third mouth to feed is.” Eli had a playdate once during lunch time and it weirded me out to have a missing child for a meal. I can’t imagine a meal plus three recesses worth of time! Glad she didn’t miss her first day!

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  2. Ann
    July 27, 2013 @ 12:32 pm

    So glad she’s feeling better! 🙂

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