And he's off!!!!!

My baby boy is off to school! All day kindergarten, starting at 7:45am! Whew, what a change. School started last week and he's still doing really well. We got him an alarm clock that goes off at 6:30am. Then Itold him he's not allowed to come out of his room till he is dressed (shoes and all!) then he comes and wakes me up. I love it! I've set an alarm everyday but haven't had to use it once! He really seems to enjoy school for the most part. He gets a annoyed with the little things (I didn't pack him the right drink in his lunch, they sang a song that he already knew from preschool, he had to read a book about bears during centers and he doesn't like bears... blah blah..), but he'll have to get over that one of these days. He's already talking about new friends. He likes Hailey, because she wears sparkly shirts and she's pretty :)

Ready to go! I let Caleb choose his favorite outfit the night before school and this is what he came up with. I'm not really thrilled about the camo on camo look, but I've let this outfit slide enough times that he really thinks they go together, so who am I to say he can't wear it now (I mean they do "match" !)

On the way to school. We are lucky enough to have the school right in our neighborhood and close enough to walk. I may not be a morning person, but I have actually been enjoying our walk to school (ask me in January if I'm still walking!)

In front of Caleb's classroom with Ellie. Yes, they are siblings and yes, they have the same parents! Can you believe that is my baby girl with the tan, no... brown skin and sun-bleached hair!

All set and ready to go. They had blank sheets of paper to draw on before school really started. Well, Caleb's came home last week and instead of a picture he wrote a collection of numbers:

1-10, then 10-100 (by tens) then 100-1000 (by hundreds) and finally 1000-9000 (by thousands), maybe I'm biased, but I think he's brilliant!