6 Miles

So today was Will’s first day of kindergarten!  

He was SO excited to ride the bus. I don’t know how much thought he put into the rest of the day. 

We waited out front for awhile for the bus, both he and Alex enjoyed waving to the cars going by.  Alex really wanted to go see the bus, and I wanted to let the driver know that Will only was going to ride Monday/Wednesday/Friday (the bus had stopped in front of the house yesterday).  So when the bus came we went up to visit/talk to the driver, and then waved good-bye as they left (yes, I did get a bit teary-eyed at that point). 

As soon as we walked into the house, Alex said “I miss Will”.  Watching Curious George and a promise to go to the library helped cure that. After the library we had a quick trip to Dunkin’ Donuts where we drowned our sorrows in a donut each. We ate outside and talked about the US flag, and how many stars and stripes are on it. Then we practiced counting to 50. After he was done with his sprinkles donut (which was good “even if it doesn’t have chocolate on it”), we came home and did some jobs, I did some Pilate’s, and then got out Alex’s car city out for him. He played nicely for about 20 minutes and then started asking about lunch (it was 11:45).  He did mention missing Will another time, but for the most part did rather well on his own.

After lunch he was ready to rest. James came home and I ran to the Dr. for my monthly check up.  Baby is doing well, all my tests/blood pressure/etc. were good, so I was in and out in a short time.

Will got home at 2:45. He shared that a friend from school, in his class, rides the bus and they sat across the aisle. Later he told James and I he found a seat with a little boy and sat with him to school. He sat next to another little who looked A LOT like that boy from the morning on the way home. He THINKS it might be the same one.   James asked him if he talked with the boy or asked him his name…he said “no”, and we had a laugh over a typical boy.

Highlights of the day he shared:

• They got to go to music class, but heard a story there about music. He was puzzled by why they didn’t play any of the instruments in the room but didn’t ask the teacher.
• He got to go to Spanish class and they had a story about a little girl who spoke Spanish and English.
• I didn’t need to put his lunch money in his folder, they didn’t make him pay for lunch today. (Yeah, right. I did, he didn’t know the teacher keeps track of it.)
• He bought his lunch and enjoyed it but wasn’t that hungry so he didn’t eat all of everything.  (Lunch is at 10:30 for him, I understand not being THAT hungry at that time.  They do get a 2:00 snack.)
• His best thing that happened today was riding on the bus (“Mom, did you know on the bus it looks like you’re going to hit the curb but you don’t?”)
• His not-so good thing that happened today was he didn’t get to go to gym. They’ll do that on Friday. (If that’s the worse thing, I’d say that’s a good day!)
• One of the girls from his class rides the bus.
• He was glad to be home, school “tired him out”. Part of that is becase he didn’t fall asleep until about 9:30 and his brother woke him up at 3 am (along with James and I).  Needless to say we were all tired today.  He was rather tired this afternoon and needed some time alone to rest while Alex played outside. Then they got to play together.

So, we survived Day One! Now it feels like it’s down hill from here!