Today was the first day of school at the San Carlos Charter Learning Center, which now has all three of my boys as middle schoolers – two tweens and a teen. Hard to believe, but we are finished with the K-4 wing of the school. This our 9th year at Charter and we love it here!
We started the first day of school the evening before when we put out clothes for the next day, football gear, and backpacks for the morning. We set out the Trader Joe’s chocolate croissants to rise overnight and headed to bed early (actually 9 pm, but that is very early considering some of the bed times we had this summer). Each kid requested a different wake up call time, which is hilarious because one of them usually sets his own alarm (which he did last night) and the other two normally ignore every alarm set.
In any event, I woke up McKinley at 7:15 so that he could take his sweet time getting ready, which he does anyway – he is the master of distraction. Jasper got up on his own and took a shower (he’s the teen, if you couldn’t tell already). Bryce rolled out of bed a long while later – but I must say, he is very focused and is usually the first one ready, tapping his fingers, waiting for everyone else.
They all got the same lecture about me coming to school to take pictures and that I’ll take as many as necessary to get a good one so make it quick and don’t horse around… Not that lectures like this do any good , but sometimes I hear the kids telling someone else something I said like this. So, occasionally, I will get a glimpse of this information sinking in somewhere in their reptilian brains.
I drove two of them so that I could take pictures and then head to Starbuck’s and then Traffic Court (what a fun part of the day); Jasper rode his bike – he has figured out that riding his bike, even up our hill, is faster than walking. I walked to class with Bryce and McKinley ran, literally, ran, the other direction to his classroom.
Bryce was fairly cooperative and we only took two shots. He picked out this shirt and loves it. I haven’t seen him take his baseball hat off since we got him a new haircut that we was less than enthusiastic about… I think it’s been 4 weeks since that haircut.
Jasper was very cooperative instead of exhibiting his usual “hiding the moment he sees me” behavior; he even wrangled his friends into posing for an awesome group photo. Somewhere, I have a shot of Jasper and Jason on the first day of kindergarten – I guess, I’ll have to go dig that up.
Jasper & Jason
McKinley was completely uncooperative and it’s like I never talked to him about taking pictures, EVER. He was much more interested in playing football with his friends.
This was as good as it got...
The assessment from the first day of school: Jasper’s favorite part of school was when it ended. He had Spanish homework. McKinley loved hot lunch and ate everything and loved that they offered Izzy’s for drinks. He said he had homework – to bring in a photo of himself for a project tomorrow. Bryce said school was “fine.” Which is all I ever get out of him. Back onto the school, sports, homework, fitting it all in treadmill. Ah, I knew there was something peaceful about summer that we would miss – no schedule.
What you will miss about summer? Leave a comment.
