Thaddeus' 1st Day of Kindergarten

Okay, hello to all! It has been a long, fast paced summer that had us running around like a bunch of chickens with our heads cut off.  We have enjoyed it just about all we could, we have done lots of the normal summer things, we have traveled, we have enjoyed the sun (perhaps too much, this Arkansas heat is much much worse than that Illinois heat I apparently had gotten used to. No showering and getting ready for the day just to walk outside and within the first second need another shower) we have enjoyed visiting lots of friends and family, and have also enjoyed taking life day by day by the seat of our pants ;).  Whew, but I am glad to say that it is coming to an end and our somewhat normal routine is coming into play.  But, enough about the summer - I will hopefully (fingers crossed) be post quite a few times fairly quickly to tell you all bout our summer. I need to tell you about Today!

Today, was Thaddeus' 1st day of 'school', kindergarten!  And it was soooo exciting! The boys couldn't hardly go to sleep last night, because they were so excited about the first day of school ;).  Yes, Tristen too.  He got all excited about this school thing and learning and who am I to just toss that aside.  We just scooted up right next to big brother and let him to do all the same things - who cares how much he is getting right now, he is having fun learning and that is the important part for a pre-schooler.
Okay, now to tell you about our day. I know some of ya are just itchin to know ;).  
We started the morning off with our favorites for breakfast.  Thaddeus loves eggs in a hole done with stars instead of circles, so he had that.  And everyone loves my blueberry muffins, so we all had those.  Tristen asked for oatmeal, one of his favorites.  He said, 'Mommy can I have oatmeal, I love oatmeal anyway you make it for me'. We had breakfast with Dad, and Daddy read some current events during breakfast.
Then we said bye to Daddy.

And went take care of the garden.  Thaddeus and Tristen planted some cabbage seeds, they had to take the seeds out of the shells. Ethan watered the garden with Mom ;)

Then, we came in and got started with our new school work!  Ethan built blocks and put together trains and played with play-dough.  He built a building with these legos and came and showed it to all of us ;).

We had Story Time to go over our lesson, and then we had a craft to do.

We started our calender - Thaddeus wrote in today's date, and our 100 chart - we are counting straws and so Thaddeus got a straw and picked out a cup to keep them in while Tristen wrote the number 1 on the chart, team work ;). Then we went over Aa and Bb (since Thaddeus already knows his letters, he actually went over this with Tristen, too cute) and we sang a few songs.

The boys sharpened their own pencils to write their names on their work.

Then we did one more craft about our lesson.

Had a snack: Pretzel sticks and marshmallows, and we tried building them into A's and B's. Then the boys played for a bit.

And we had lunch - we had Aapples cut into puzzle pieces, fun!



Before naptime we all did signing songs and then the rest of the day we just had fun finding things from our lesson wherever we could. :)  It was a Great Day! Gotta Go, tomorrow we are picking peaches before school.

I never did a pic of Thaddues smiling, he was always in the middle of telling something very important, you know space astronaut, marvel/dc heros, food important - i mean practically life or death stuff here