They're Too Cool For School

The second week in August is a hard time to go back to school. The girls are always excited and ready anyway. I thought Kara would have a hard time getting up at 6 every morning, since last year she only had to get up that early every other day. But it hasn't been too bad, and she almost never runs late. I suppose it's easier to get used to a schedule that is consistent. 

I walked her to the bus on the first day, and all of the other parents were there too, so I don't know why she was annoyed. But she did not want me to walk her down the next day. She asked me to stay in the house, so I said I'd walk half way to where I could see her get on the bus. We finally compromised that I could stand on the front porch. Sheesh, these kids... She hasn't been kidnapped yet, so I guess it's going okay.

Off to middle school!

The little girls got up much earlier than needed because they were so excited. That left us plenty of time to curl Kiersten's hair. Now that I see the picture, we'll have to do it again soon, I forgot how adorable it was. 

Evie was pretty excited to have the same teacher that Kara had for 2nd grade. It's the first time any of the girls have repeated a teacher. I just hope her teacher wasn't expecting a calm, quiet, math-loving bookworm like Kara. I'm never quite sure what to expect to hear from Evie's teacher at that first parent teacher conference.  I don't think anything would surprise me unless I heard she's very quiet and organized. 

She really wanted to take an umbrella to school. There was rain in the forecast, so I let her take it along.

These kids are all getting so big! We'll be 4 fewer at the bus stop next year. Maybe we'll have some new faces around by then.

We got a new bus driver this year. The girls were kind of sad, but they have warmed up to the new driver. She seems very nice. The timing is slightly different with having a new driver, but we've gotten used to a slightly adjusted schedule. We get 4 extra minutes in the morning now before we need to leave. 

It did in fact start raining after school. The little umbrella Evie had didn't help too much. I should have brought one of our large golf umbrellas, but I didn't expect it to start pouring like that. Kara was surprised to see us come in just soaking wet. Evie changed into pjs before I could get a picture of them. 

It was a successful first day back.

They wanted their picture taken again the next day before school. Mostly Kiersten wanted the picture because she is so proud of that little jacket. She saw it at the store a while back and really liked it, but it was too expensive. When she went on her birthday shopping spree, it was discounted some, but she still decided it was more than she was willing to spend. So when we went back to school shopping and she found it for $4, she was over the moon, and didn't stop talking about her amazing find for days. All the bus stop parents got to hear about it. It was definitely not jacket weather, but she just had to wear it anyway.

I have seen this fox in our yard plenty of times, but finally had my phone handy to take a picture. I wanted to show Ben how large it was. 

I thought she was posing for me. 

But it turned out she had spotted a rabbit. Which she did catch. Don't leave your cats outside neighbors.