First day of Fifth Grade

Whoa.

I think this day was harder on me than first of kindergarten.

I mean, fifth grade, people!

That's the last grade in elementary school.  And then there are only three years of middle school and only four more of high school.  She's practically out of the house already!  I could barely contain myself.

We took these pictures at home because she said I would embarrass her if I tried to take them at school or ask any of her friends to get in a picture with her.

So, Abs is into all things London right now.  Not because the Olympics just happened there (although that was a fun thing too) but because her favorite authors are from London.  You know, JK Rowling and Jenny Nimmo.  I'm sure there are more but those are top of the list.

I couldn't leave her at school without embarrassing her at least a little...

She's refusing to look at me.

Just waves me away.

Leave, mom, please!

 

We had a little girl talk recently and I told her she can't leave me at home with all these boys by myself.  Dylan will graduate high school in about 15 years so she'll only have to live at home until she's 25.  Ab thought that was totally reasonable.

yeah, right. 

sigh.

 

First day of (home)school

We are homeschooling Joe this year.

I'm not homeschooling everybody.  In fact Big D starts preschool this year!  We just take it year by year and try to do what's best for each child.  So I am excited to be spending a little extra time with my Joe Joe.

Thursday was the first day for him (the others haven't started yet).  I told him we were going to start the day off official-like by getting dressed.  No pj's the first day of this mama's school!

He goes back to change and comes out dressed like this...

 

Now that's official.

And this is what he thinks homeschool is going to look like...

And this is what he will look like when I get through with him...

p.s.  Joe thinks this face makes him look hard core.

Jono thinks it makes him look like he put something hard core in his ninja turtle thermos.