first day of school! first day of school!

the first day of school finally arrived. it was met with varying emotions.

dean was fairly indifferent. ho-hum, another year of school.

max was excited to go back--he got the same teacher as last year (whom he loved) with the same classmates!
but reed, as you can see, was ecstatic! i'm going to school! with my big brothers!

 brynn doesn't understand what's happening, really. why are you making me sit in this chair? where's mom?


the dropoff went well. no tears from any parties. we had to wait in line to sign reed in and drop him off, but once he was in, he was done with us. :) dean disappeared once he figured out what room he was in--we had to track him down to say good-bye. max found his kindergarten teacher--now his first grade teacher--and lined up with his familiar classmates and followed them to their classroom. and then we walked home, brynn on my back. troy and i even held hands!

 this is brynn, queen of the house, after the dropoff at school and daddy left for work.

yep, it's all about me now!

...until 11:30 am, anyway. now, if only mommy could figure out exactly how much time we really have between dropoff and pickups so we're not late!