First Day of School

It came a year sooner than I thought. The first day of school. My son started Pre-K the other day, which goes every day from 8-2:30 and loves it...well, he loves it when he gets there. Here are a few pictures:

Eating breakfast before his big day. I made him a nice breakfast of...yep, you've got it! Cereal! Mother of the year award to me!

Sporting his new backpack and shoes. He's so proud...and he even picked out those shoes himself.

I fear I've created a star wars fanatic of him. You should see his lunch bag and cup...At least, Aunt Gracie will have a buddy for her annual Star Wars marathons.

Last, but not least, his super happy face on the first day. Sad to say, I did not have that same look on my face. If anything, I was a bit weepy, and boy, did I miss him that day. All summer long, I'd been looking forward to him being at school, but the big day comes and I was a bigger baby than my baby.

This day marks his third day and this is what I've heard from him so far.
2nd day:
"Mommy, I don't want to go to school. It takes you forever to come get me!" I guess there was not such a smooth transition from a couple of hours here and there to every day for 6 hours :/

3rd day:
David: I want to go back to bed!
Me: You can't. You're a big boy now. You've got to go to school.
David: No, I'm not. I'm 3.

I have 14 more years of this?!! I can't wait...

He really does enjoy school once he gets there. His teacher tells me he's such a sweet boy and on Friday, he came home and told me that he helped his friend button up his pants after they had their potty break, lol. Such a big helper!

Happy Kid's Day

A conversation between David and Billy:

David: Daddy, can me have a happy kid's day?

Billy: A happy kid's day?

David: Yeah, like mommy has a happy mother's day and you have a happy father's day...a happy kid's day.


Out of the mouth of babes.

Big boy

This summer, David has had some pretty big milestones. I enrolled him in swim lessons and was amazed at how much he'd accomplished in a week. Here he is swimming toward his teacher. I was one proud mama!

Now he thinks he can just swim anytime he wants without waiting for me. Gives me a bit of a heart attack, but luckily he does pretty good for that moment it takes me to get to him. The other day, David's dad made a deal with him. If he could ride his bike without the training wheels, he would buy him a new bike. Well, he took him out, took off the training wheels, and helped David push off. It came naturally to David and he took off peadling without a hitch. Once he noticed that his dad wasn't holding him up, though, he immediately crashed! Again another proud mama moment:

I can't believe how big he's getting! Today, he is 4 1/2 years old. How crazy is that? He starts Pre-K in August and I don't know what I'm going to do without my little pal around ALL THE TIME! Ok, I do, but still...

Bend It Like David

It's official. I'm a soccer mom...

One of life's little pleasures is watching 4 and 5 year olds chasing a soccer ball :-)

Go Renegades!!!

It's the end of the world

It seems to me that the world will, indeed, end in 2012.

For one, David walked up to me the other day and said, "Mom, I'm tired. I'm going to take a nap."
I didn't believe him, but it got strangely quiet and I went to check on him. There he was, snoozing soundly on the couch.

Secondly, my husband was allowed to come home early from work just because of our anniversary. He usually stays at work for a little longer than normal working hours, so this to me, was miraculous. I mean, come on, he didn't make it home for the birth of his son ;)

I don't know about you, but I'm going to start getting ready for the end, because if these aren't sure signs, then I don't know what is.