First Day of First Grade

First Graders are really cool!

I know,  we have one at our house.

They get to eat lunch at school.

And use their new Star Wars Clone Wars lunch bag.

They already have friends at school.

They have 2 recesses on short days and 3 on normal days.

They get their own desk, with their name on it.

They have a new teacher named Miss Lisa.

She likes Red and she is Married.

And they cry when they find out their fav teacher from last year 

Miss Emily is teaching first grade now.

and all the pretty girls that you were going 

to marry are in her class. 

 It turns out okay because he sees them at recess

and their lines in the hall are right next to each other. 

What a great first day!

Fly Away

Yesterday morning as I reminded Noah that he had school today.

He looked at me with disgust and said "Again"

I responded with a "Yup, you go to school everyday that daddy goes to work"

His face lit up and he said "Mom, I'm becoming a Man"

When we arrived at school, I asked if he wanted me to walk him up to the building.

He responded "Mom, I am 5, Just drop me off and I will run"

I asked for a kiss and he responded and a hug and a kiss for good measure.

He hugged baby cause she will miss him to.

And climbed out of the car, hoisted his backpack onto his shoulders

With a huge grin on his face started walking through the gate and up to school

His exuberance and confidence made me proud

I was a bit choked up as I thought "fly away my little bird"

Noah's First Day of Kindergarten

(Noah outside our house ready to go to school)

Today was Noah's first day of Kindergarten. He is in the Afternoon class and he has the cutest teacher, Miss Emily. I met her at the end of last year at his transition meeting for his speech. She seems so awesome and I think she will be a good fit for my boy. After his kindergarten assessment last tuesday he said he really really liked her and he thought she was a Hot Momma. It makes us totally laugh. I think he overheard his daddy talking about how he thought he had a really pretty teacher.

(Walking in line into his classroom, He looks like a man with a purpose)

Last year we had an issue with Noah thinking that school was boring (a word he learned from his classmates). So after parent teacher conference a couple weeks ago, I told him that his teacher says she does not teach anything that is boring. He was so cute, he started jumping up and down and clapping. We both decided that kindergarten was going to be awesome. I had a brilliant mom moment one night when he told me his primary class was boring. I said that I know your kindergarten teacher does not teach boring things so if you say it is boring. I will know you are not getting enough sleep for kindergarten. He looks at me with a horrified look on his face like he is totally screwed.

He woke up, ate his breakfast and watched a episode of Spiderman, he took a shower, got dressed for school. We took his picture in front of our house and then brushed our teeth. For his first day we had a special lunch that he got to choose. We went the the BK and he wore a crown as did Sofia. We ate apple fries and cheeseburgers. Then we drove to school

He held my hand as we walked up to the gate. I talk how excited I was for him. He responded that he was glad he did not have a boring teacher that it was going to be really really fun. I took a picture by the school and he lined up to go to class. He saw his friend Lily, hence more pics and he walked into school. I peeked in when he was more settled. He was playing at one of the tables. He looked a little bit nervous but fine. I was so proud as his mom. He is jumping in with gusto. I hope he has a really good year.

(Noah with his new teacher Miss Emily)

Well, he did have a really fun day he said. Of course like any child he did not tell me anything useful about what he learned. He did have snack and recess and there are lots of fun friends in his class. I got to talk to his teacher and she said he did really well and she could understand him mostly. He showed his talking device to the class and they thought it was cool. He told Kersten about a boy that punched him and was a bully and he was not but I think that might be a made up story.

Seems like a successful day for Noah and for mom, I did not even cry or feel like it not even once.

Thumbs Sideways

Tonight was fantastic.  It was a night that dreams are made of.  And it was not because of what we did but who we were with and the outcome.  

My sweet boy Noah, woke up on thursday whining that his leg hurt and he did not want to go to school.  He has been anti school lately.  So I scooped him up and took him to school.  The saddest thing is that he did not walk at school.  He even sat on the grass at recess.  He stayed on the couch the entire day on thursday.  We discovered that it was his knee that was hurting him more than anything else.  I kept thinking he was being a drama king by not wanting to make it straight.  Kersten took him to the doc today.  Luckily, he does not have a fracture or anything of that kind.  From what they can see,  his knee cap is probably displaced and we need to get him to keep moving it to wiggle back in place.  They sent us some fancy patches to help with the motions.  Poor kid,  3 days of no jumping around playing Star Wars is killing him.  He even commented that he was sad cause he had to go right to sleep and could not play in his bed.  Ha Ha, I guess this is one way to quiet him down faster.

Since he is still down and has a fancy new Ace bandage,  We decided to have a fun family movie night.  He has been dying to see Speed Racer, ever since he saw the commercials for the DVD.  I made homemade pizza,  we bought some movie snacks, such as popcorn, whoppers and licorce.   We snuggled in our pajamas all of us on the couch,  with Tweet-ums crawling back and forth on top of the three of us.  She wanted to be with the person with the most interesting food.  Speed Racer was actually pretty good.  It stressed the importance of family.  Of being loyal , following your heart and of doing the right thing even if it is hard.  Noah was pretty excited about it.

Afterwards,  I had one of the best mommy moments ever.  Sofia fell asleep at the end of the movie.  So Noah said his prayers etc, outside of his room.  After potty time and brushing his teeth,  I carried him into my room for his nite time prayers.  He asked if we could sit in the chair,  I fed him in as a baby.  It sits in the corner of my bedroom.  I snuggled him on my lap.  And teased him that he sure had grown a lot since I fed him as a baby.  In Noah language he explained that he ate good food,  used his strong muscles and he turned one, two, three and now he is four and so so big.  I asked him if he wanted to talk to Mom about anything.  He nodded "Yes"  and said he wanted to talk about Stormtroopers in a bubble.  Apparently,  some Stormtroopers got stuck in a bubble and Darth Vader was going to be mad.  We talked about different ways to get them out of the bubble.  He also used the Choke force on them.  I told him Darth Vader would not like it that he used his signature move and would clash lightsabers with him.  Then in a brilliant Noah moment he said that he was Anakin and could not fight himself when he uses bad choices.  

I asked him about school.  He has complained bitterly the last week that he wants "No, school".  I asked him if school was thumbs up or thumbs down.  He waved his thumbs back and forth.  So I asked if it was thumbs sideways.  We both laughed hysterically.  He proceeds to explain to me that school was sideways because they did not let him play guns and lightsabers the whole time (this is all explained in sound effects by the way).  His teachers make him sit down and write, listen and blah blah blah.  In his exact words.  At this point I am trying to suppress my laughter.  I commented that he could play guns and lightsabers at recess.  He puts his fingers really close together to explain it is too little time and then spreads his arms really big to say that is how much time he wants.  We discussed different ways that would make school more fun and when it was okay to play lightsabers.  We talked for another 10 minutes or so.  Going back and forth with the subject,  Starwars, School,  silly Sofia,  his knee and church tomorrow.    

This reminded me how important it is to slow down.  Life is so hurried for there is so much to do.  Between all the responsibilities of all my roles,  I need to stop and just talk with my boy so he feels understood and that his opinions matter and are valid.  In some ways his owey knee has been kind of nice.  He has slowed down.  In fact forcing us to slow down also.  

Noah's First Day of School-Age 4

Noah's first day of full school was this morning. Here he is with his super cool new Transformer backpack.  I let him pick out his clothes and of course it was one of his blue Star Wars shirts.  This was for meet the teacher day which was yesterday.  He wore his red C3PO and R2D2 shirt for today.  . He was really nervous and kind of shy. But his new teacher, Ms Amber was really smart and showed him all the cool places and toys in the room. He said he liked her. When Lily showed up they immediately started running around like crazy together and he was in his element. It helped make him really excited for today.

Here is a pic of his new teacher, Ms Amber, Noah and his friend Lily.  My camera has started to have this haze over each picture.  Time for a really new camera. He was so excited and nervous for school, he woke up at a quarter to seven this morning.  He ate breakfast and chocolate milk.  He watched the cartoon Iron Man while he got dressed.  He was so full of nervous energy that you could feel it vibrate in the room.  We were a couple minutes early.  So he had to kiss his baby like 8 times and give her squeezes so that she would not miss him and know that he would be back.  This spured on that a couple of the other kids had to also hug Sofia cause she was a cute baby and Noah was willing to share.  He had a couple of kids he knew from last year in his class.  When Camden saw him,  his face lit up and he jumped up and down and came and gave Noah a hug.  Camden's mom took their picture together.  We hung up his backpack, found his name collar, where he got mad that it said Noah instead of Anakin. He is also Iceman today so that would have been fine also.  But plain Noah was just NOT okay.  He waved goodbye and he ran to play.  I hope it turns out to be a marvelous day.  

First day of Preschool

Is is really possible that my baby boy is old enough to go to preschool. How am I going to feel when he actually goes to Kindergarten or High School. I guess I will go down that road when it comes. He has been so excited. But I don't think he quite understood what it meant to go to school. Today was more of a meet the teacher, play in the classroom, meet your classmates and we will show you where school will be. On the drive there this morning he kept saying "No school, Home please". And when he saw the big elementary school building he got a bit nervous and asked me to hold him. But when we got close enough he could see the front doors, he had to get down and walk in all by himself. I showed him the bear outside on the wall with his name on it and walked into room #3. Wow, how cool is it that he is in room 3 and that is how old he is. He had a metal grip on my hand when we walked in. And then he saw the table with dinosaurs all over it and ran right past the teachers and started playing with them. I am so excited about his school. He has a fantastic teacher named Miss Sharon and her aide Miss Mary and also his speech therapist Libby. All of them took the time with him to play and talk with him and find out what he likes. It was a bit emotional to see him in that enviroment and watch him make new friends. He made his placemat for snack and found his name on all of the charts. Tommrow is his first full day where I don't stay and watch. I am really glad that I get to help in the classroom, it will be really fun. He had to show his backpack in the picture.