First Day of school! 2011-2012 school year

Isn't he just the cutest little ray of sunshine!  He totally rocked his mohawk and check out the boots in the picture below!  Remember his pre-k graduation pictures.  I love that boy!!!  When I picked him up today his teacher was just beaming at how sweet and charming he was!  And I had 5 people stop me in the hall to tell me how cute he was in his black boots!  Yep I have a heart breaker on my hands!~

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~His dad polished his boots up for his Big day in Kindergarten~

We live down south and our school year starts early!  Wanted to share a few pictures from this morning.  Baby J starts Kindergarten today and my sweet baby girl started 3rd grade!

My sweet little girl is growing up too fast!!!  She had a wonderful first day.  We are so blessed that our elementary school allows us to submit Teacher Request forms and we were lucky enough to get both the Kindergarten and 3rd Grade teachers that were at the top of our list.  No working the system like so many of the parents try to do.  We write about how our child learns and about their personality and the wonderful principal hand picks the perfect teacher for each child.  Pretty cool don't ya think!

 And I didn't cry, I was so proud of myself!  He is my baby, my last one and not crying my eyes out when I walked out the door was a huge deal! 

Baby J and his daddy.

Hope everyone has a wonderful & blessed 2011-2012 school year!

First day of Second Grade!

My sweet 2nd grader!
Ready for school and no tears!

Little brother was a little sad to see her go back to school.

7:00 AM time to hit the road!

One last hug...

Her new backpack and lunch bag so stink 'in cute. I got it from Pottery Barn Outlet and it wasn't cheap. I told her she had to use it the next three years!

Off they go... Ok so I will admit that I actually cried this year. It was the first year I didn't go on the first day. (Avoiding the parent, student and school supplies mob at all cost.) Joshua was quick to hug me and tell me, "but mommy I'm still here" which made me choke up even more. Because then I started thinking about him next year being old enough to start kindergarten. I need to stop now because I feel my eyes welling up again.

Afternoon pick-up went great and she was happy enough to play around with me and say she didn't have a good day... that little stinker. She talked all the way home about her day and who she liked and who she didn't and who sat beside her and who was bad and who was good and the games they played and how hot pink gogurts got all over her new white shirt~

Happy first day of school.