Colleen's First Day of School . . . . EXCITEMENT EXCITEMENT!!

Colleen woke up to the alarm (thanks Mr. Gray -- LOVE this alarm clock) with NO prompting from me at all!! She got up, brushed her teeth, fed herself breakfast and got dressed in record time!! She truly was one eager beaver.

One of the exciting things about going to this new school (Bergen Arts and Science Charter School) is the fact that she'd be taking the bus to school in the morning. So, with bus-pass in hand, she was off on her route to school.

The bus was a little late getting her to school, but all was well. I got to the school to make sure that she made it to her classroom.

Well, then we were off to get R.J. to his FIRST DAY OF PRE-SCHOOL!!

R.J.'s First Day of School -- FUN FUN FUN!!

"Come on, follow me, let's go to school!!"

R.J. woke up (in our bed -- but that's another story) with a smile on his face. He'd been asking to go to school since we attended the orientation session last Thursday. I told him that today was the day. He let me know that he had to get dressed, brush his teeth AND put on socks and shoes. All things necessary for school. After all, we were going to "R.J.'s School". He was quite thrilled that he'd have his own backpack too.



Well, Bob couldn't understand WHY we had R.J.'s backpack in the van . . . I was pretty certain that things would be a little slow going on day one and, well, better safe than sorry.

There truly was a lot of fun and excitement waiting for the door to open. R.J. was as patient as any three-year-old could possibly be. When the door opened, we hopped on line and waited our turn. As far as his hesitant nature . . . uh . . . yeah . . . there was none! Not even so much as a "Bye Mommy". All we got to see was the back of his head!!