First day of school - I mean, first grade

That's for you Nonni... When we mention that Luke was going back to school, he makes sure to point out that it's "first grade"! Today was a good day, but seemed very long! Have some challenges this year with my kids so hopefully I can manage to have a great year like last year again.

I thought we were going to be off to a rough start when Luke woke up last night at 10 feeling really sick. He finally fell asleep at 11:30 feeling ok again. Luckily he woke up feeling great today, ready to go!

Notice how BLACK it is outside in these photos... it was 6:45 am. So early! And Luke had me take a photo of myself too.

And so she's not left out, Mia had a big day too! She started back at daycare last week, and our sad efforts of starting potty training over the summer were blown away by how great she started doing once she was with fabulous Ms. Sonya and her friends! We were told after only a week that she was to start with panties today... So she got her elmo and dora panties and we sent them off to school today... and she came home in the same dry pair! Friday night when I got home from buying them, she put on a pair of elmo, then a pair of dora on top, then said "I want to go dance in my unnerwears!" and off she went to dance in her room! silly girl! Should have gotten a picture of that one!