Early Fall Days

Today the weather was begging for a good walk and a photo shoot so here are the results....

Then we climbed trees

They were having so much fun!

We started out on the neighborhood nature trail

Then we stopped for a quick pic

Aedan Vann the Ladies Man

Rowenna his BFF

                                                                                                                                                                                     

Aedan's first day taking the bus to school!!

Well today my little boy went on the bus to school for the first time ALL BY HIMSELF!!!

When we were getting ready to walk to his bus stop he had questions galore.  Things like... how will I know that I am on the right bus?  What is the name of the bus driver?  Is it going to be bumpy?  Will there be a lot of kids?  Will they let you come?  Do they know where my home is?  you name it he asked it.  We sang the wheels on the bus and that seemed to calm down his nerves a little.  the bus came, he hopped right up asked the driver where he should sit and smiled and waved good bye through the window.  I was no good after that!  It was at least 2 hours later before I was not fighting back the tears anymore :)  What a big boy!!

When it came time for school to be out Abbey, Rowenna and me waited at the corner for about 40 minutes :)  yea apparently I was really eager to have him back :)

                                          

Then all of a sudden here came the bus

                                        

                                   
He had a great day and felt so proud of himself.  That is his new friend Matthew

Aedans last parent/child day at school

When Aedan woke up this morning he was both excited and quietly nervous. This, after all,  was the last parent/child day!
He ate a great breakfast, got ready with exuberance and even posed for pics on the step before we left.

As we parked in the parking lot and as we walking into the building he was talking a mile a minute, about his shadow, the sun, recess, differences in boys and girls and well really anything and everything!
He walked down the stairs and straight to his classroom like he had been there a hundred times but in reality he had been there once. We were greeted by Ms. Baker and given a scavenger hunt to do; he loves scavenger hunts.
We refound his locker and checked that off the list then I noticed the bathroom was the next item of interest so without thinking I went to the one in the hall. This is important because when we made it back to the classroom all the other children were already seated on the carpet singing a song and when Aedan realized he was the only one not doing it his nerves were set off big time!!  He chose to sit on my lap for all of singing and story time. When the story was over they made a craft of the mouse in tthe story, he was quickly off to the table to sit with the other kids and color.

                                               They made mice that live in their lockers.


When we were leaving I tried to get pics of him in front of the locker but this is all he would give me.

Oh well can't wait to hear how tomorrow goes, his first day without me!!