School Registration

Preparing school supplies

Getting ready to walk to school

In the school lobby

Filling out forms

Adam's classroom

Derek's classroom

The boys have been staying with Helen's parents this week since Helen had to go back to work. We call it "Camp Nanna and Poppy". Despite temperatures hovering near 100 degrees all week, they were able to get out and do lots of fun things. Adam and Derek especially liked the visit to Kennesaw Mountain.

Helen's parents brought the boys back Wednesday night for school orientation on Thursday. Derek was very excited to find out if any of his good friends were in his class. Adam was a little apprehensive. He's been excited about going to school all Summer, but as the time's gotten closer he's gotten more nervous about it. We were working with him on how to introduce himself to his teacher when he looked up at Helen with little tears and said, "But Mommy - I'm shy".

We decided to walk to school while the boys rode their bikes. Adam now likes to go down all hills with his feet on the crossbar. Helen doesn't like it, but I say it's ok for him to push the limits a little - as long as he doesn't screw up and inconvience us by having to take him to the hospital.

Both of the boy's teachers seemed very nice. Derek didn't have any of his good friends in his class, but he knew a lot of the kids and he seemed to really like his new teacher, Ms Sutton. Adam was shy at first when he met his teacher, Ms Getty, but quickly got into it and enjoyed exploring his new classroom. We talked with both teachers and felt good about them.

We saw lots of friends and neighbors. Our neighbor, Sylvia, who has a son, Ryan, entering kindergarten with Adam saw us walking home and told us how she had already been home and boo-hooed.

I took the boys to work with me where Helen's parents met us. They're keeping the boys for the rest of the week and we'll pick the boys up this weekend. After I left home with the boys, Helen said she went upstairs and broke down when she walked by the boy's bedrooms. She said that she couldn't seem to shake her fragile emotions all day and cried some at work as well.