Second chance at first day of school

I can hardly believe it's that time already. This last month has been a whirlwind... with me working weekends as well as freelancing, plus Ella's birthday. (I'll do that post with pictures next) Time has just flown by and today, our girl went back to school!

I was thinking about how in the world we managed it last year, before she started kindergarten, and realized, we really didn't. Max was still in the NICU, he came home ONE DAY before she started kindergarten. We had her birthday party almost a month early, to avoid germ exposure close to his discharge date, and we were on auto-pilot.

It makes me sad that the first day of her kindergarten experience wasn't as exciting as it should have been. Just look at this face. She was ready to go to school, but terrified to leave her new baby brother who had been home for less than 24 hours, after 4 long months in the NICU.


Plus, the newspaper article on his milk donor was the front page story that morning, so everyone stopped us on the way into class to talk about Max, and her teacher talked about it in front of her class, before they even started the day... talk about stealing her thunder!



This year, it's different, and we are all so excited! Meet the teacher night was fun. Ella has Mrs. Roy for the 1st grade. The most exciting thing for her is the fact that they have a bath tub in class. (it's a giant claw-foot tub painted bright blue and filled with pillows and stuffed toys for reading)



This morning, she jumped out of bed, was dressed and clean in 15 minutes and ready for breakfast!



This morning, we were all ready to go and enjoy Ella's first day as a first grader! Even the rain couldn't dampen our spirits! This is going to be a great year!!!