Meet & Greet

The boys got to go and meet their teachers today! We visited Jacob's classroom first and met his teacher, Ms. Bonson. She seemed very nice and his classroom looks like a lot of fun. I think he was most excited about the lockers.

After we left the Kindergarten hallway, we headed to Zach's classroom and met his teacher, Ms. Hatfield. She also seemed very nice and I'm pretty sure we found Zach's favorite area of the classroom.....

After meeting the teachers we went to the ice cream social. YUM!

This was how Emily spent her time at the ice cream social.

Since the elementary school is right next to the library we ventured over to the library when we were done and checked out some more books!
Daniel's been so busy with everything this summer that he hasn't had an opportunity to relax in his hammock at all...until today (for all of 5 minutes).

and of course he couldn't really relax.

smooching on Emily

And of course, we had to check on our tadpoles since we'd been gone for the last few days. My, oh my, we have thousands. Is it wrong to just "accidentely" dump them out??? I think I'd feel bad!

1 of the 4 collections of tadpoles.

Jake says these are his tadpoles.

Zach caught a big one!

Jacob thought this would be a nice picture. Clearly I'm rubbing off on my boys.

So it dawned on me today that Jacob starts Kindergarten on Monday. I've been pouting about it for the entire last year and it's actually about to happen. Soon. REALLY soon. What am I going to do?? I know, I'll have Emily with me all day, everyday still and Zach for half the day M-F (Pre-K is only a half day program) but Jacob will be starting real school. Everyday! I can't quite figure out how he's old enough to be in Kindergarten. I'm not sure how I'm going to handle Monday. I'm going to be an absolute mess. He's excited about school and I'm excited for him but I'm so very sad that the time for it is almost here. I keep thinking that we haven't done everything we've needed to this summer. We could've had more fun! Is he ready? Should I have done more to prepare him? Will he behave? Will he listen to his teacher? Will the other kids in his class like him? Will he like the other kids? Will he eat his lunch? He's never eaten lunch at school before! I know lunchtime isn't that complex and that all of the kids are in the same boat but still!! I just want to be there to hold his hand and hug him and help him with anything he needs help with. What if he's like me and doesn't like his pb&j sandwich after it's been in his lunchbox for a couple of hours? He'll be hungry!! What if I don't pack him enough food in his lunchbox! See, I've been worrying about this like crazy. It's not even the first day of school and I already feel so nervous about it! It's hard to even think about handing over my kiddo to someone I don't know for 7 hours a day.

Emily had fun in the tub tonight too!