Lucas and Eli's First Day of School

The boys started the morning bright and early asking if today was the day they got to go to Ate Sydney's school. Yep today is finally the day - I'm sure to Lucas anyway it seems like it's taken forever before this day arrived - me it's come around pretty fast.

Eli surprised me again. He hung his coat in the locker, remembered where his classroom was, knocked and when his teacher answered the door said hello, then proceeded to march into the room and go to his desk. All on his own with no reminders. It amazes me how you can show the boys something once and they remember it, that's probably cause my own memory is sliding downhill.

After Eli went into his room Lucas got a little quiet but went and put his things away and as we waited a few minutes to go into his class he saw Eli's class leave the room for lunch. Once he saw Eli marching down the hall with the rest of his class Lucas took this big sigh and smiled at me. Guess he was wondering how well Eli would like school too.

Can I just say by the amount of English and Tagalog spewing forth on the way home from school from both sources it was a successful day. These are the highlights of what I could catch:

school, lunch, playground, friend, friends, football, basketball, star (on worksheet), write name, friend, hot dog, drink, orange drink (turned out to be strawberry milk) Mrs. McGinn, banyo, bike now, hot dog, eat, bag, Mrs. Olson , friend, recess, 2 , 3. All said in about 15 seconds

We came home had to call Daddy and Ate' Rachel. Sydney and Alison had already called to check on them. Think we were more worried about the first day than the boys? Now the conversation is tomorrow this school, tomorrow that school. We'll mark it down as a good day.

Apparently school is a hit as the boys ate supper, asked for their showers, video and have their clothes layed out for tomorrow. The only negative that we heard was they were amazed that they were only given 1 hot dog, that discussion has gone all afternoon and night. By the way they cleared their plates tonight and we discovered they love grilled tuna sandwiches. I guess school lunch will make a person reevaluate the food supply.