First Day of School!

It's hard to believe that the kids have already gone back to school, but yesterday was their first day. Zach is now in 3rd grade and Ryan is in 2nd grade. We have year round school and are on C track, which means we go for 3 weeks and then we have our first break for 3 weeks. So even though the kids have started school we still get to have a little more summer in a few weeks. They seemed fairly excited that morning to go back, but after school Ryan could not stop talking about how much fun he had and how he LOVED school. (I hope that attitude lasts throughout the year.) I think Zach's excitement for school was overshadowed by his excitement to start football. His first day for football workouts was yesterday also. Things went well after he faced the fact that he was just going to be HOT. He didn't even have all his pads on, just his helmet. He'll be really busy with practices for the next few weeks but we're excited to see him play in a real football game. Owen was not excited for his brothers to go back to school because he didn't get to go too. He was very upset that he was not old enough to go. After repeatedly telling him that he would get to go next year, and that not satisfying him, I gave up and told him we could have school at our house. So I got out some paper and colored pencils and told him he needed to learn his ABC's. That seemed to work, for today anyway. We'll see what tomorrow brings.