FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

Well, yesterday was the first day of school and all 3 kids did great and had a lot of fun. The night before all kids were in bed before 9pm! First time they've been in bed that early for a very long time. The next morning the girls were up before 7am and I woke Cody up at 7 and we told him Happy Birthday and he says "Where's the cake?" Hahaha! He was excited for his first day of Pre-K and got dressed, ate breakfast, and brushed his teeth. Megan and Kylee caught the bus just a few minutes after 8am and Cody and I headed to the other side of town to his school. He did really well. We walked inside and waited with all the other parents and students until it was time to go into the classroom. Then once inside the "bumble bee pod" (common area for his group of pre-k classes) he sat on the bumble bee with his classmates and waited to go into his classroom. He was very quiet and just checking out all the other kids, gave me a kiss goodbye, and waited. I stood behind a few other parents just out of his site and waited to see how he did. He did start to cry, which made me tear up a bit, but his teacher was right there and comforted him and they started talking about his birthday. I picked him up at 11:15 and as soon as he got in the car he said "well, that was fun!". Too cute.

Megan is in 5th grade this year and her homeroom teacher is Mrs Roller. Kylee is in 4th grade this year and her homeroom teacher is Mrs Egger (Megan's homeroom teacher last year). Kylee switches between 4 classes this year and Megan switches between 3. The 4th grade is a bit bigger than the 5th grade this year so that is why they have 1 more teacher. Cody is in his first year of Pre-K and is in the Bumble Bee Pod with his teachers being Mrs Clifton & Mrs Statum.

Back To School

Well, school supply shopping is 98% done! All that's left to get is Kleenex (7 boxes), Clorox wipes, water paints that are almost impossible to find :), and a student planner. All after going to 5 different stores to get the best deals and to hunt through all the picked over supplies. I'm sure you can tell how much I LOVE school supply shopping :(

We had a hard time finding backpacks this year. Well, not really a hard time finding a store that had them in stock, but a hard time finding one that didn't cost an arm and a leg. We finally found some nice, but affordable, backpacks at JCPenney this year. Cody found his spiderman backpack, which made his whole year! The girls found some really fun ones too that are a much more comfortable design for them.

All 3 kids are very excited to start school next Wednesday (Aug 18th...yep, also Cody's bday). Cody already talks about his teacher, Mrs Clifton, and can't wait to meet her Monday during "Meet the Teacher".

Here are pictures of the kids with all their supplies and backpacks. Cody was in a modeling mood that day :)

All the supplies before we sorted

Kazoo Concert

This afternoon Cody and I went to the school to listen to the 3rd graders Kazoo concert. Cody really enjoyed the music and the kids all did a great job. They played songs like Old McDonald, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Jimmy Crack Corn, Hickory Dickory Dock, and much more.

Kayla, Kylee, Alyssa

Megans Kazoo Concert

This afternoon the Ator Elementary 3rd Graders put on a kazoo concert. It was very cute! Megan had her own speaking part and did so good! She had been practicing memorizing her part for 2 days! I have uploaded some videos on my youtube account of the concert. To view the videos, just go to http://www.youtube.com/ and search olivacarlson. My videos will pull up. There should be a few videos from the concert (including Megans speaking part) and also 1 video of John and the kids singing!

John and the kids were singing along with the IPod and I tried sneaking up on them to get a video...but I got caught! They were having a lot of fun and it was so cute! The video isn't so great because I was trying to be sneaky but you can hear them singing!

Megan with her friend Nadine