First Day of Kindergarten

Today, 8/8/12 was Daxton's first day at Kindergarten.  We have enrolled him at the charter school in Pima called Discovery Plus Academy.  We met his teacher, Ms. Willis, and saw his classroom last night. He's all set with his spiderman backpack and matching spiderman shoes. I was so heartbroken and emotional last night knowing that from here on out he is going to be spending more time away from me than with me.   I guess it helps me to realize how fortunate I have been to be a "stay at home" mom. Fortunately, this school is on a 4 day school week and so I get Friday, Saturday and Sunday with him all to myself.  School starts at 8:00 and I have to drive him from Thatcher.  We were almost late on the first day which led to very little time for me to be emotional or upset about dropping him off.  Here's the best part, I FORGOT to pick him up.  Damon called me and said "Did you forget something?" "Uh NO, why?" "Daxton's school just called and apparently you forgot to pick him up!"  hahaha.  Oops.  It was only a 1/2 day today and I didn't know it.  Guess I'm not off to a very good start.

Stratton also started preschool today in Pima at Brighter Day Preschool.  Fortunately for him, he gets to ride the bus to school, the short bus.  :)  Stratton has a hard time saying his "c, k, g, l, th, r's" and so he qualified by 1 point to attend this speech therapy preschool.  It's wonderful.  His teacher is Ms. D'Ann.  He goes Tues-Thursday from 12:30-2:30.  The bus came and got him.  I loaded up the girls and we drove to his school so we would be there when he got off the bus.  I didn't want him to be scared on his first day.  I told him we would be there to pick him up.  Well...being that Daxton only had a half day I didn't have a reason to be driving to Pima in the afternoon.  So, I called his school and told them to send him home on the bus.  Big Mistake!  I guess he started crying and said "my mom said she is going to pick me up".  He got on the bus and as the bus driver told me "he just knew I wasn't going to bring him back home".  Poor guy.  As the bus was going to everyone's house but his, he thought he was never going to see us again.  He was so distraught when he got home that he got mad at me because I didn't pick him up and told me not to ever do that EVER, EVER again.