First of First

Yes, they get older, and much faster than you would ever want.  Paul turned six over the summer and started first grade last week.  We dropped him off for his first day at his new school in the pouring rain, and thankfully there weren't too many tears all around.  He seemed a bit nervous, but overall handled it as we expected he would.  There are a total of 22 students in his class and altogether the school has about 650 students from K to 4.  As long as no other unknown changes come in our lives, he'll be going to this school for a few years I guess.  The nice thing is, we close on our house on Tuesday and it's only maybe less than half a mile of a walk, so hopefully on some days we'll be able to walk over and pick him up rather than get in the mess of traffic.  Otherwise, he'll be working on reading and writing and arithmetic throughout the year, or so they say.  From what we saw at the orientation, he's already got a pretty good jump on the reading skills, so we're sure he'll be doing just fine.  Here he was on the first day:

Getting up while it's still dark outside?? What kind of nonsense is this??

 His very own locker, so he can store all of his very important school supplies.

Another picture of the first day... just can't believe how old he looks in this one.  Where has the time gone?  At least there's still two more years before Adam is old enough!  And Nolan, well, he's still working on that whole walking thing.  Hopefully it's a good year for everyone!