First Day of 2013-14.

The first day of school.

Again.

Officially.

For everyone this time.

Our three middle schoolers:

We are so in trouble.

Frying pans, who knew?

If you understand that reference and why I went there, bonus points to you.

Casidee is ruling the school as an 8th grader this year.

(for more on Jay's first day go here, for Brynn's go here).
Our elementary crew:

We have two fifth graders and a third grader this year.

Cali's already killing me with her eclectic style.

And it's only the first day.

She revamped her outfit five times until we finally settled on this.

Tayler and Sean get to be on Student Council this year.  They had their first meeting about their responsibilities before school this morning.

We got a letter saying they had to earn money for their student council shirts and sweatshirts.

Tayler was all over it and has already earned her money.

Sean was like, "why would I earn money for that when I could earn money for a video game instead?"

Which is typical behavior for both of them.  We'll see if Sean changes his mind as everyone else has shirts, but I don't know that he will.  That boy is comfortable in his own opinions.  Which is not a bad thing.

And so it begins.

The school year of 2013-14.

Jayme Starts Middle School

This week got busy.  And so it begins, the changing of the schedules with the pending changing of the season.  Though school is starting way too early this year so I can barely say that the season is changing.  Just that the season change is pending.

Last night was back to school night.  Last year with Casidee it was a bit stressful as neither of us knew the school layout at all.  This year was better.  We'd had a round with that school under our belt, and even though there was the big switch of moving 6th grade up to middle school for the first time, at least we were a bit more familiar with the way things were going to go.

When I was in Jr. High and High School I would get my schedule and head down to the school during the summer to find my locker and locate all of my classes.  I have a fear of standing out in a crowd and I didn't want to be late to a class or get lost and draw attention to myself.

Last night was back to school night and the school has set it up specifically for that reason.  It gives the kids a chance to walk through their classes in order and meet their teachers, and find their lockers.

It might have taken Brynn a half hour to figure out how to get her locker open, but she finally got it.

West took Jayme around to her classes, I took Brynn, and Cas was on her own, which was no big deal since she'd "been there done that" already.

Today the 7th graders have their first day of school.

All by themselves with no one else in the school so they can get the hang of it without other kids bustling around them.

Today Jayme took her first crack at being in middle school.

And let me tell ya, this girl is ready.

Theater and art class?  Who wouldn't want to be a part of that?

It's a little surreal when I think that half our kids are now in middle school.

Tomorrow Brynn gets her practice run with the 6th graders and come Monday it's back to school time full blown.