First Day of School

Sydney has officially started Kindergarten! So far she likes her new school pretty well. She is still adjusting to having to sit at a desk for most of the day but so far that has been her only complaint. She likes her teacher and is making new friends. Unfortunately none of the kids she went to pre-school with are at her new school. It doesn’t seemed to have phased her though.

On her first day of school we got to walk her into her class and she was fine when we left. After school she went over to the after school program that the school has. When I went to pick her up that afternoon she was pretty upset and about to cry. I asked her why she was upset and she told me that it was because I was there to get her. She wanted to stay longer. I suppose that is a good problem to have. After that we started dropping her off in the car line and she walked herself into the school. I think that was harder on me than the first day.

Halas is still adjusting to dropping Sydney off and being in the car without her for a while. When she first gets out of the car we have to sing the “Sydney’s coming back” song. Then he calms down and starts counting, and talking, and singing to himself for the rest of the ride. I guess it isn’t too often that he gets to hear his own voice when Sydney is riding with him.

We got to go up to Illinois for Aunt Lori’s wedding a couple of weeks ago. Sydney was the flower girl and Halas was a ring bearer. It is my opinion that they did perfect at their jobs. Sydney took her job very (very, very) seriously. She was taking the whole day in and I’m pretty sure that she already has ideas for her own wedding. 20-some more years of planning and Daddy is going to have quite a bill on his hands. Halas made it down the aisle with his pillow in hand and was very well behaved during the ceremony. You can’t really ask for more from a 1 and a half year old. My mom and sister took some pictures so I will post some when I get them (hint hint Mom and Tiffany).

We wish that we could have stayed longer while we were up there and get some more family time in. Now that Sydney has a real school schedule that is going to be more difficult. I did get to see a lot of Steve’s family from both in-town and out-of-town at the wedding. Halas got some good play time in with his cousins. I have a feeling that he was soaking in what two-year olds can do (x3). Monkey see, monkey do. We even got Sydney, Halas, and the triplets in the pool for some good summer time fun before we left. [If I was taking pictures like my sister was, I would insert a shot of all five of them together right here…]

Ang