Goodness gracious, I thought this day would never arrive! Jake started first grade yesterday, two days later than he was supposed to. Hurricane Irene knocked out power all over the area for days and flooded a few roads, so they couldn’t open on schedule. We were without power for two days, and MetEd was atrocious about the whole thing. I understand that they are busy and overwhelmed with customers calling, but they were downright rude at times. They basically told my elderly, widowed neighbor to suck it up because New Jersey was much worse. But it’s all over and done with, the power is back, and the boy started school.
He reported that he had a wonderful first day, loves his new teacher, and even got double recess! Considering that they only get 15 minutes a day for recess as it is, that’s pretty good news. He even earned two gold stars! I so hope this is the start to a much better school year. He’s excited, ready to learn, and looking forward to further mastering his reading skills. They have health class this year, I’m wondering what they cover in first grade health. We haven’t done the whole ‘where babies come from” talk yet, they don’t cover that at age six, do they? I just need a heads up if they do!
I still can’t believe my baby is in first grade. He gets really annoyed when I tell him how I used to rock him and squish his little baby cheeks and change his diaper. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I do it in a baby-talk voice, something I never used when he was a baby because I figured if I wanted him to learn the proper way to speak, I should start teaching him right away. He pushes me away (I’m usually trying to cradle him like a baby to fully illustrate the point when I do this) and tells me to knock it off. (Insert big sigh here). Soon he wont think I’m cool anymore and will make me walk ten paces behind him in public. That brings on a whole new slew of emotions. I mean, I think I’m still cool! Of course, half the time I forget I’m getting closer to 40 than 30 already. Time just moves so fast. Today, first grade, tomorrow college graduation. But for now, everything is going great and I’m just hoping it stays that way.
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My son just started 1st grade last week, ow he’s at school all day long. Since he was home all summer long I can see he’s having a hard adjust to school, but as much as he complains about it is about how much he loves going back. lol He loves that his lunch comes with a chocolate milk lol
School chocolate milk is awesome stuff. Although today Jake told me he needed two drinks with lunch, and I said “well grab two milks then,” and he launched into a long explanation about how it doesn’t have to be milk, it can also be juice. I’m just glad he remembered his pin number from Kindergarten because I completely forgot it.
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