Today, my baby starts first grade. Yup - Ms. Princess is a FIRST GRADER! And Dude - he’s going into the 4th grade. 20 minutes until we leave for the bus. The kids? They are SOOOOO excited - and that makes me way happy.
Princess asked if she could get a new outfit for the first day of school - who was I to tell her no! She picked out a cute cupcake and polka dot dress . . . if you can see the socks, notice that they are also polka dot and match quite nicely 
And the hair - she wanted curly hair for her first day of school, so I put lots of braids in it yesterday. I “blame” all of this need to “get ready” on my mom . . . clearly that gene missed a generation Here Princess is in all her cuteness for her first day of first grade!
And then there’s Dude, who is clearly too cool to get new clothes for school - and also still doesn’t believe me that yes, he does need a haircut and no, not all camo matches 
He was so sweet to Princess this morning . . . I had the hugest smile on my face watching them walk down to the bus stop together this a.m. with their backpacks on.
I have to giggle at Princess’ luck . . . one of her first grade teachers is named Mrs. Drake - I had a 1st grade teacher named Mrs. Drake! Her other teacher (tag-teaming this year - woo hoo!) is Mrs. Studen . . . a total no-nonsense loving teacher - will be PERFECT for Princess. And Princess’ room number? 111! How easy is THAT for her to remember on her 1st day of 1st grade. And her Thunder Time teacher’s name? Mr. Smiley That’s a good way to start the day!
Dude has no clue about his teacher . . . all the 4th grade teachers are new this year! But he did get lucky and have a teacher who let them choose their desk - and one of his really good buddies is in his class, so they’re sitting next to each other. So far so good - we’ll see what it’s all like after school actually starts.
Tears in my eyes as we get ready to head to the bus . . . how about you - cool, calm, and collected sending the kiddos off to school? Or openly weapy and happy/sad?
It’s such a happy day and such a sad day at the same time! I’ll never forget your 1st day at school!!! It will be soooooo different for Keira and I really hope that she likes it and that she makes friends very fast. She is so social and outgoing that I feel confident she will. Can’t wait to here her review of her first day at school!!! Love..Mom
She looks too cute! I would have loved to have her in my classroom when I taught 1st grade. I’m so glad she was so happy and eager- I hope it was a wonderful day! As for Dude- sounds like a typical 4th grade boy to me! Hope he had a great day too! I’m not sure how I will be on Ashlyn’s first day- it is at the end of the month- so we will see!
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