and it’s Wesley’s first day of school!
Hooray! I am a kindergartener now!!
So before school we had a big photo session:
Then we loaded into the car and drove to the school:
In the parking lot heading over to the school.
Waiting to cross the street.
Let's go in!
Waiting for their teacher in the lunch room.
At his cubby.
Unpacking his folder.
Yep...he has the top shelf cubby. :)
Working on a coloring page while everyone gets settled.
Joshua and Jillian watch from the other side of the room.
Joshua takes a picture with his phone.
Jillian comes over to see what Wesley is working on.
Then it is time to go to the carpet. The teacher asks them to stand up and push in their chairs. Maybe 1/4 of the class is able to follow that direction (way to go Wes).
They sit and listen to "The Night Before Kindergarten" by Natasha Wing.
At the end of the book the kids wave goodbye and give hugs to their families - so Wesley got to do the same.
Jillian was the 1st to get a hug.
Dad...
Then Me.
Joshua, Jillian and I then went home. It was strange driving away thinking about him in that big school “all alone”. A tear did come to my eye and it made me think about how fast he has grown up!
We had 2 hours at home before we had to go back and get him. (He is in school 2 hours and 40 minutes.)
Joshua was awesome with Jillian - making her feel loved and special. Here they are reading - 11 books together (she had 21 more ready in a pile for him to read too). Before that they played games in her room and they even started a game of memory before we had to go.
We arrived early to pick up Wesley – good thing too, because they came out early. 
Waiting for his teacher to call his name to leave.
He was so excited to see us!
There he is - done with his 1st day of kindergarten!!!
Then we went to get lunch to celebrate…
And what would be the best way to finish off such a great day…. ice cream of course.
And she did not want to miss a drop of that ice cream!
Tags: Amber, First Day of School, Jillian, Joshua, Kindergarten, Red Robin, Wesley
Wesley really wanted a backpack with a character on it… Most of them are not for me.
But then he found a good one with Mario on it.
When we went for kindergarten testing another kid had his backpack… So I started to think of ways to make it more unique. And since it is mostly white – I was worried that it would become mostly brown in no time.
So I decided to color it. At first I was just going to color a few. Then that evolved into coloring them all. Then Wesley wanted the background area a color too…
Here is my finished product:
Wesley LOVES his Mario backpack even more now that when he picked it out from the store. I have to say… I love it more now too.
I can’t wait to see it on him tomorrow for his first day of kindergarten!
Tags: Amber, Backpack, Coloring, Kindergarten, Mario, Super Mario, Wesley
We had our first visit of the summer (now that it is almost over) to North Lynnwood Park. I brought the bikes and the swim suits and we had a wonderful couple of hours.
They were so cute riding together.
Wesley mostly rode the .32 mile loop. He rode around at least 6 times.
After a couple of laps around the park they cooled off in the sprinkler.
And blowing bubbles.
Filling her tub so she can get Wesley.
She is throwing her water onto me...
Then they started dumping water onto their heads.
I love how he is holding his nose.
Full dump with no nose holding. :)
Then I tried to get a picture of them together…this is the best I could get:
Jillian: 4y 0m 24d Wesley: 5y 9m 11d
Then they warmed up in the sun.
A bit of playing on the playground was next.
Monkey Bars!
40 minutes of bike riding rounded out the rest of our visit to the park.
We sure did enjoy our last day of summer vacation!