Easton's First Day of 1st Grade

Our little first grader came out of his room as soon as the clock turned 7:00 this morning. Who knows how long he'd been up but the boy was excited. Autumn and Dalton were still asleep and we had over an hour before we even had to leave the house so he took his time having some OJ then he got dressed and played a little Angry Birds to pass the time while I made his breakfast and packed his lunch.



Those eggs aren't mutant...they're supposed to be heart shaped. Easton recognized it. I wanted him to know they were supposed to look like that so he wouldn't be afraid to eat them. :)

He sat to have a bagel and show me 1st grade:


Meanwhile Jason got Autumn and Dalton up and finally we decided to leave the house about 10 minutes earlier than planned. But first we had to take our "First Day of School" pictures:


Showing us this year's backpack:


Then we were off. I wish he was looking forward to his first day at his new school a little more:




Oh wait. His excitement was positively contagious.

Even though this isn't the school our neighborhood feeds in to, it is super close to us. Even closer than last year's school. Closer than Dalton's school, in fact. So we got there in no time at all. The whole family came along for the occasion:

(Yes, Autumn is now forward facing. Jason wanted to do it awhile ago. I talked him into waiting till 2 but she got car sick driving up to the mountains the other day and I thought turning her a few days early would be okay and might help with her car sickness. However, I feel like I should go off on a small tangent here to mention the recommendation from car seat aficionados is to rear-face them till their car seat manual says you can't anymore because of their rear-facing weight limit or if they get too tall up the back. Rear facing is safest. In the case of the Tiny S children, all 3 of them could/should/would still be rear-facing based on weight as our seat's rear facing limit is 40 pounds and not a single S kid weighs more than that. Still. However, Easton is too tall to rear face. The law here says that they must stay rear facing until they are 1 year old AND 20 pounds. So we're not breaking the law, even if it's not the safest option we still believe they're pretty safe. I'd have kept her rear-facing awhile longer if Jason was on board and Autumn wasn't suddenly car sick. End tangent.)

So, anyway, back to school...the school doesn't start letting kids in till 8:15 so Easton and I hopped in line with all the other excited families while Jason, Dalton, and Autumn stayed in the car. We met a kid who was going to be in Easton's class. "Z" we'll call him but it might be "X"...anyway, both E and Z/X had sharks on their shirt and Z/X was wearing the same super rad General Grievous tennis shoes Easton has (but wasn't wearing).

Finally they let us in:


Easton's school shares a building with at least 2 other schools (last year there were five in there, I think!). Anyway, his school is on the 2nd floor:




I had him lead me to his classroom if he remembered it (we went for Back to School night on Friday). He was cautious and looking carefully for his teacher's name on her door:




But he didn't get to read her name because he saw her instead! Ms. H greeted him with a handshake...doesn't she look friendly?


She seemed super great the short time we spoke with her Friday night. And she complimented Easton on his eyelashes then (and his cool hair and cool name) and this morning she grabbed his little face complimenting his eyes and eyelashes again:

He does have some pretty amazing eyes and his lashes are enviable, for sure.

Ms. H told the kids to pick whichever cubby they wanted...Easton did:


And then he made himself a little name tag:


Which the cutie then decided he wanted to decorate:




He started sticking it on the back wall of his cubby but it was for his shirt and the cubby sign was going to come later, I believe:


And then I decided I probably better mosey on. He gave me a giant hug and I didn't want to leave but I did. I pointed out some kids coloring and some boys looking at a book and encouraged him in one of those directions. This last one makes me a bit sad as he's looking back at me:


Then we left. I got a little misty eyed but I never did cry. Even though he's at school for more than 7 hours now!!! My mama's boy will now be spending more of his awake time at school than with me! :(

Jason drove us home and headed off to work and the little two and I had some breakfast, watched some Elmo DVD from the library, hung out with the neighbors across the street for a bit, had a snack (the same one I sent for Easton today), and then we took Dalton to get his back-to-school haircut, hit up Walmart, and back home for lunch and quiet time without my Eassie. I kept thinking of him, wondering how he was doing, if he'd eaten yet, if they'd played outside, if he'd had to go potty...

Lunch was a little weird. Dalton and I were at the table and Little Miss was throwing a fit on the floor:




Luckily it was almost naptime for her so that she could be up in time to go get her biggest bub. We left half an hour before school got out so we could be among the first in line, and we were!

Easton forgot that I'd packed him a snack so he didn't eat anything while everyone else did. :( Maybe no more Angry Birds while I'm telling him "important" things like the fact that he's got a snack packed in his backpack. He reported a good day. That his favorite part was the tour they took and "lunch recess" where he played "spies" with "one of his best friends" whose name he does not know but the boy was wearing an Angry Birds shirt. He told me that from his lunch he had "all my yogurt, about 8 pistachios, all of the eggs you packed for me, 1 grape, and 2 cookies" "Only two cookies...why?" "Because I didn't eat all my lunch". Awwww. What a good, honest boy. He said he doesn't like grapes that are big and cutting them in half won't help, they're just not as good overall. I made a mental note. I'll pack him something different tomorrow!