First Day of Kindergarten

Here are the photos. And a little commentary.
Obligatory front door photos.

 Sorry it's fuzzy. Walking (running) to school. He refused to put on his backpack, and although it was empty, he said it was too heavy and he stuck it in the stroller for the last 100 yards to the school.

 It's not the newest or fanciest school in the world.

 He successfully found his cubby. This was a big worry for him (even though he new exactly where it was.)

 The kid before us had her photo taken by the front door of the classroom so I decided to do that as well. This is Joshua kind of nervous but not willing to admit it. My kids stick their fingers in their mouths when they feel awkward or uncomfortable. it's kind of weird.

 His teacher helped him find his seat right next to Jaxon, who is in his primary class at church. As I left I heard Jaxon say, "Hey Joshua. Remember me? I'm Jaxon."  I'm glad Joshua has a friend.

 Abigail didn't feel like running on the walk home. She felt more like crying. It was, however, not totally because she felt left out - although she did ask why she couldn't go to school that day like Joshua and insisted that she was already 5 years old. It was really hot. If I were only 3 and my mother refused to pick me up and make me walk 4 blocks home, I would have thrown a much bigger tantrum. Overall, she did pretty good.

 School's out! Joshua didn't see us right at first. He looked really concerned and walked back inside his classroom for a second.

 Then he found us!

 And we went out to Coldstone Icre Cream to celebrate. This is the first time the kids have EVER been out to get ice cream at a real ice cream place. Well, that's not exactly true, but I can only ever think of one other time AND it was on "vacation."  This was a real sit down affair and they thought it was awesome.

Joshua is feeling pretty good about things. Right now he wants to do homework, but not SCHOOL homework, just homework that I make up for him. He doesn't get "real" homework for another week... and then it's just writing his name with lowercase letters. I'll have to make some things up for him to work on. That shouldn't be hard. I have a feeling that even though kindergarten is going to be a lot of fun, it may not be super academic. But what do I know, it's only the first day. I suppose we should want our kids wanting more from school when they leave instead of crying and wanting nothing to do with it. Good job, Joshua.