Growing up...way too fast

Well, it's official - we have a pre-schooler and a school aged child in our house.

Next thing you know I'll have two high school graduates!

Grace had her first day of Kindergarten last Thursday. David was able to go in late to work, so he took the kids to school for their first day. I was so glad he was able to do that because he has missed so many firsts with the kids - he's either been at work and unable to get away, or deployed...

Next to her cubby

With her teacher, Mrs. Ellis

Sitting at her desk

I made it through the day without crying - I really was surprised I didn't cry, because the day before when we were up at the school, Grace's teacher took her to see her room and showed her her cubby with all her school supplies in it, and I started to tear up then. I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that Tristan is in the room right next to my office, and Grace is just down the hall.

Neither of the kids had any trouble adjusting... Tristan's preschool classroom is the same room as his Sunday School class, and Grace had gone to preschool there the last few months of last year, so she knows her way around. In fact, Grace asked me "Mommy, why are you taking so many pictures?" As David said, it's no big deal to them since they're used to being here... So much for making a big deal over the first day of school...

What can I say? He's right next door, I had to peek!

Grace even had her first homework assignment Thursday night!

Not only did they start school on Thursday, but they started their sports that day too. Thursday was Grace's first soccer practice - she is now on a team for kids under 6. She enjoyed the mini-sports soccer so much that she decided she wanted to play on a team when the season started. So, she'll be playing soccer from now until sometime in November.

Tristan said that he wanted to play t-ball, so we signed him up for mini-sports since he's too young to play on any teams (mini-sports is a 6 session introduction to different sports, geared to 3-5 year olds). David took him to that and said that he really enjoyed it - until he got bored... I guess the coach wants to teach them to throw the ball a certain way, and Tristan already has a rocket for an arm, so he got pretty bored with having to do it the "right way". Hopefully I'll be able to convince David to take the camera to one of the practices so we can get some pictures of our little guy doing his thing.

Needless to say, we are incredibly busy! We have school daily from 8:30-3, and then have activities every evening except for Fridays (we start ballet/tap and gymnastics tomorrow), so if anyone has any good crock-pot or quick fix dinners, I could sure use them! Thankfully, I only have to be in 2 places at once for 6 weeks (we're praying that David gets off of work at a decent hour on Tuesdays so he can take one of the kids to their practice) and things will calm down in November once soccer season is over. So I hope you'll understand if these blogs become a little sparse...