Schaffner Family: First Day of School...

August 22, 2011...
Today was the first day of school at Steele. Ethan started 2nd grade and Tristan started Preschool. They wanted Mom to take them to school and pick them up for their first day so I agreed gladly as long as they want me to do it. They are growing up way too fast. They got up and got dressed pretty good and had some breakfast before we headed out. Got them to take some pictures before we took off and to show us their new backpacks too, Ethan had Star Wars Legos and Tristan had Cars 2. They were pretty excited. When we got to school we dropped Ethan off at his classroom and met his teacher, Mrs. Magstadt. We waited while he changed into his inside shoes and headed into his classroom to get a picture and then we walked to Tristan's classroom. Tristan found his locker right away and put his stuff in it. Then Mrs. Schmidt helped show us where he should put his outside shoes and then he took my hand and wanted me to come in to his classroom with him. I watched while he found his cubby with his shoes and he got them on all by himself. As he was doing that, he spotted some big trucks by his chair and got pretty excited. So after that he went and found his chair and sat down and waved good-bye to me. He did very good, I was impressed. As always, I think it was harder on Mom than on him. :) I picked them up after school and Ethan had already picked Tristan up from his room and they were outside so I went and found them outside. Tristan was pretty tired, he almost fell asleep on the drive home. Ethan got a bag of goodies from his new teacher so he was pretty excited about opening that up to see what was in it. Tristan had gotten a water bottle to leave at school that had some little goodies in too. They had corn dogs for lunch so they were both happy about that. They had a great first day.