The boys returned to school on Wednesday, and now they are 4th and 2nd graders.  This year we decided not to continue with CDC (before and after school care), and signed up for Math Enrichment after school instead.  The boys were actually excited about going to ME even more than school.  I took the day off, so I walked the boys to school with the school supplies in the morning.  Logan is now in the upper grade, so his bell is 5 minutes before Connor’s.  We arrived at school, said goodbye to Logan and watched him march into classroom.  Next we walked to Connor’s classroom which was only 2 classrooms away.  Connor was a bit quiet and stayed near me instead of saying hi to his friends.  When the teacher opened up the door, she welcomed the parents inside the classroom too.  Connor and I found his table; he sat down and put his backpack away.  He looked a little serious.  I did not want to stay long to interfere with the class, so I quickly said bye to Connor.  Then I headed over to the parent coffee, and stayed quite awhile chatting with some parents.

    At the end of the day, the boys had planned to go to ME and they could just go on their own.  However I wanted to pick them up on the first day, so I arrived at school to wait for them.  Connor’s bell came first and he told me how his day was while we waited for Logan to come out five minutes later.  Logan told me that he had a good day, then we all headed over to the ME classroom.  I said bye to them again and walked home.  Finally at 4:15pm, our promise time, I returned to pick the boys up.  I took them to the public library, then we went for some ice cream.  In the evening, the boys were out on the street playing Kick the Can with neighborhood kids.  What a good first day of school the boys had.