first day of school.

wowsa, i've fallen behind on my blogs.  i want to post pics of our 4th annual lucy family labor day picnic as well as our lucy family beach trip this past weekend - another time!!  can't keep up.  we're busy and i'm tired.  

sarah kate went back to school last wednesday.   she'll go mondays, wednesdays and fridays.  on mondays and wednesdays she goes from 9am -1pm and has lunch at school.  sweet girl thinks she's so big carrying her lunch box into school!  fridays she goes from 9 until noon.

well, i guess since this is her third year at school that she's an old pro.  no tears.  no anxiety.  just went on in to that familiar place where she goes to church and preschool. she walked in and looked at her teacher, mrs. ginger, and said, "can i dress up?"  and that was how her day began.  i hugged her bye and left - she couldn't have cared less what i did though - her classroom is stocked with dress up clothes so who cares about mama anyway?!

i took her shopping a couple of weeks ago and she picked out her new lunchbox & sparkly toms.  i also let her pick out her back to school outfit the night before so of course she chose a smocked dress.  

so, here she is doing her "where's sarah kate?"  she also does this when she sees my camera because she doesn't like to have her picture taken anymore.  and she gets a real kick out of being difficult.

she is actually bigger than her bag this year!  all the kids carry the same bag from the 1 year old class all the way up to kindergarten. it changes colors each year, but is the same otherwise.  it's been fun watching her "grow into her bag."

there she goes - looking all big!! 

with mrs. karen, her assistant teacher

with mrs. ginger, her lead teacher

she had a great day!  she didn't really elaborate on anything other than, "i dressed up!"  today was her second day of school (she missed friday because we were at the beach) and she said she had fun.  she had dance this evening so her mondays are full!

i have other pics from her first day, but the only ones that will download correctly are my landscape pics - all portrait pics are turned sideways for some reason and i'm too tired to fix it all right now.  off to bed i go - i will post more about school, labor day weekend, and our beach trip soon hopefully.

hayes is sleeping in her crib tonight for the first time!  so far, so good.  i just went upstairs a little while ago to give her a late night feeding.  she didn't even really wake up for it so she went right on back to sleep when she was done eating.  i hope she has a good night up there.  kind of nervous for some reason - maybe nervous isn't the right word!  just hoping she does okay up there all by herself.  i have a video on her of course so i can look in from time to time. next year i'll be posting about that sweet baby's first day of school and sk's first day of 4k.  but i'm not worried about all that right now.  right now i'm just going to worry about her first night in the crib.=)