Back to School Winners!

Thanks (again!) to the Random Integer Generator automatons, these three numbers were picked:

9
16
74

So, a big congrats to:

Cass
Jamie
Gayle

Send me an email with your mailing address and I'll get your goodies boxes out to you next week!

The first week of school for everyone was pretty uneventful. Nadia even started preschool which is the one thing I'm still coming to terms with. Part of me wants to keep her at my side so we can both enjoy her babyness a while longer - she's our baby, our last child. She did very well, and it helps that my best friend (hi, Kelly!) works in the classroom and gave her a familiar face to find and a familiar lap to sit in (which she did for most of her first day). Nadia didn't cry when I left or when I picked her up. If she had, I would have lost it.

Makena was a bit clingy on her first day back to her preschool, but by Friday she was telling her daddy, "Okay, daddy.  You can go now." That's my big girl!

And Aidan is making friends and adjusting to a new school, new friends and new teachers. And, despite the medication, is having some difficulties already. It's a big class (currently 26 kids) and his class is one of four kindergarten classrooms at his school (was there a baby boom five years ago?). We'll be checking in with his doctor to see if his prescription needs to be adjusted after his summer growth spurt, and perhaps it's just a matter of getting his body used to being on the Ritalin again after nearly three months without it.

What's been awesome about him attending this new school two long blocks from our house, is that we get to walk to school together most mornings. I push Nadia in the stroller and Aidan and I chat about spiders and dump trucks and electricity and cheetahs and dolphins and whatever else pops into his amazingly curious mind. I am enjoying this special time with him, and I know he really enjoys the one-on-one time and attention. He's such a great kid, and I'm so very proud to be his mommy.

On the first day of school, Chris took the girls to Makena's first day, and I walked Aidan to his first day. I don't have any photos of Makena on her first day back, but here are a few from Aidan's. (click on photos to enlarge - bigger is better!)
I'll be back next week, and congrats again to the winners!

Comments

[AllisonK]

He can't be any cuter!! Glad it was nice first week.

[cathy]

I agree, that kid is adorable!

[Lisa]

Cute photos. Love the backpack shot walking away from the camera. He's looks like such a big boy standing there ready to head to school. You look like you're up and about too-Congrat!

[cindy]

Aidan is so Big!! so handsome! super pics!
i know i don't post often when i come to your blog, but i always love how you capture your children & how their personality shines...Awesome!

[margaret]

How nice that you get to walk to school with him! Hope everything settles down nicely for him this year! :)

[margaret]

Forget to mention that I love the pictures of him...he's looking awfully big though!