Back to School and Other Fun!

Well, Wednesday marked Andrew's 2nd first day at school and the beginning of my 5th year teaching kindergarten. The first days of kindergarten (ok, months) make me wonder "why did I choose this grade?" It progressively gets better, but gosh, I forget the amount of work that goes into starting the year! I have 12 boys and 6 girls in my class, so you can imagine what that's like! Andrew started back and had two good mornings of screaming for his mommy, but we've made it two days without tears and happy reports so all is well! Here is a picture of him on the first day of school.

He's not waving goodbye, he's wanting me to hold his hand. Jason has had to go with us for moral support (for me) because of all the tears. I'm blaming Madelyn- I used to be much stronger and could just go quickly, but not these days!

We had a fun day Saturday. We went to the Razorback Fan Day and saw our new friend Connor. Andrew is completely terrified of Boss Hog and Sue E. He LOVED Tusk. I just don't get it, he is totally afraid of "stuffed" animals, but would climb all over real ones! We also ordered his birthday cake. It is from Rick's (of course) and will have a vacuum going up the side of it, because Andrew LOVES vacuums! One of the little boys down the street had his 3rd birthday Saturday afternoon so we went to that. Andrew played on the slip and slide and ate a huge cupcake! After we cleaned him up we went and got him two new pairs of tennis shoes for school. He of course loved them and had to "model" them the rest of the evening. It seems like life gets really busy once school starts back! Here are some pics from our Saturday.
Andrew and Tusk. He liked petting him. I didn't realize how big that thing was. He's HUGE!

Having a great time!

I don't know what to think about you, Boss Hog!

Save me Mom!

Trying on his new tennis shoes. He wanted to put the other pair on over those. He ended up with one of each!

Now this is what I found today. I had gone to change clothes after work and I told Andrew we were going to cook dinner. I heard him move his chair over to the cabinet like he always does to help. I came in and he had opened up the pan of brownies, pulled one out, and started eating it. It was so funny!