I walked with a friend to pick Dekker and Laela up from school yesterday. It was so much warmer than the morning had been, which was refreshing. We got there early, and chatted outside with a handful of other moms we know. But a few minutes before the bell, we all went inside and huddled around the door to retrieve our children.
I waited by Laela’s door, and that worked out because she was first in line, bursting out the door with a BIG smile on her face! She had gotten to be the helper on the first day of school, and she was STOKED. She told me had a really happy first day, but there weren’t too many details, and thats ok. It usually takes my kids a few weeks even to just settle into the swing of things and actually retain anything, lol! Anyone else’s kids like that?
Being that Dekker and Laela’s classrooms are so close together, we walked a whole five steps over to pick him up, too. He was just gathering his stuff, and I saw him hug his teacher goodbye. Love that. Once he spotted us, his eyes grew and he just shouted “We got bananas splits!” The chocolate smear on his face indicated this to be true. It was a cute effort that their teacher had made because they are the only split class int he whole school, and she was trying to sell it as extra special 😉 Well played. Well played.
The kids got their shoes on and sweated out the walk back home underneath their backpacks in the beautiful afternoon sun. I couldn’t weasel too many details out of them, as I mentioned before, but they were both just SO happy.
And that was proven again this morning. While Laela ate her breakfast at a snails pace, Dekker got himself fully ready, pulled the bikes out of the garage, and lined up their backpacks and shoes. He was READY. I loved that so much. Dekker has always been totally willing and happy to go to school, but given the choice, he’d always prefer to be home. But today, he was chomping at the bit to get moving. I loved that.
As they were getting themselves out the door, I heard them discussing where to meet at the end of the day. Boot room? Bike rack? I’m not sure they had settled on a location before they left, but they’re such smart, obedient kids, I know they’ll watch out for each other.
Safe to say, school is going well so far. First day was a total success.