Jacob had his first day of Kindergarten on Thursday (I know, it was an odd day to start, especially since Friday was a short day and Monday is Labor Day, but whatever). We were very excited that the big day finally came, we have been waiting for a month for school start. The rest of our school district, including all of Jacob's cousins, started school at the beginning of August. Our start date was pushed back a month because our brand new school, Silver Crest Elementary, wasn't ready yet. It was worth the wait. The school is beautiful, and it is so nice to have it right in our back yard. On Thursday morning Jacob got up at 6:30 and asked if it was time to get up yet, "No! Go back to bed." Later in the morning, when we saw his friend Lexi, who lives next door, heading off to her morning Kindergarten class he was ready to go too. When I told him that he doesn't go until after lunch he started to cry, "Why didn't you put me in the morning class?" It was a long morning of waiting. Finally, it was time to get ready. He picked out which shirt to wear and got dressed in his new school cloths, I made him wear old cloths in the morning. He insisted on wearing his Lightning McQueen underwear to match his backpack, and because "It is my lucky day." :0) Here he is all ready to go.
Randy was able to come home for lunch so the whole family walked over to the school to drop Jacob off. He was excited, not at all nervous. I was excited too, not at all sad. He has been so board lately, I am glad that he finally has something to do.
Here he is with his Joy School friends Emily and Makailey in front of the school
This is Enoch, his "second best friend"
Most of the other Kindergartners in our ward are in his class, which we are all really happy about.
Lined up saying hi to his teacher Miss Schmidt
It turns out Randy went to high school with Jacob's teacher Miss Schmidt. They didn't hang out, but they had a lot of classes together and they had friends in common. Small world.
When I picked Jacob up three hours later he said he had fun on his first day of Kindergarten. It was hard to get much information out of him. But I did get that they read some stories and learned some of the rules. His favorite part was their 15 min recess because, "We got to play outside." I have a feeling that the only reason he said this is because Isaac says that recess is his favorite part of school. He also told me that he lost his chance to have an M&M, but he didn't know what he did to loose it. He said no one got one. Hmm. I hope they are being good kids.
Randy was able to come home for lunch so the whole family walked over to the school to drop Jacob off. He was excited, not at all nervous. I was excited too, not at all sad. He has been so board lately, I am glad that he finally has something to do.
Most of the other Kindergartners in our ward are in his class, which we are all really happy about.
