First day of school

August 23rd brought brought Aiden's first day of kindergarten and Baylie's first day as a Ladybug in her preschool.  We had been prepping for kindergarten all summer, talking about "big" school, trying out the playground, taking walks up to the school so Aiden could practice riding his bike up there., etc. :)  I did all the pre-school traditions, school supply shopping (not nearly as much of a nightmare as I thought), buying new backpacks ("Old school transformers" for Aiden and Disney princess for Baylie), and new clothes shopping.  We bought alarm clocks (Aiden was particularly excited about this - just wait a couple years and that excitement will wear off) and started setting them a couple days in advance to get used to using them, although Aiden has yet to sleep until the alarm goes off. :)
The big day came and we all got ready, made Aiden's first lunch in the lunch box, and set off to go.  Aiden opted to ride his scooter instead of the bike bc we had not bought a bike lock yet (completely sold out at Target).  We took the obligatory first day pictures.

We got to walk Aiden into his classroom on the first day, so this was fun for Baylie to see everything.  Aiden did great walked in and was a littl thrown by the fact that his seat had moved since Meet the Teacher night, but found it quickly and did great!  Micah and I did pretty well too!  We went and had donuts with the other kinder parents in the library then went to drop off Miss Baylie.  She wanted some pics with her backpack like Aiden got.  Of course we agreed. :)

We went to drop off Baylie at school, and apparently she thought when she moved up to be a Ladybug (formerly a Wiggle Worm), she too would get to go to a new school.  Needless to day, she was a little disappointed when we drove up the same school and voiced this quite clearly.  Once we got her inside to see her "Auntie" (school director) for hugs and kisses, then went to her "new" classroom, she was excited again, especially when she saw her friends.

Micah and I took the day off to be able to drop off and pick up Aiden together, so we decided to take soem time that morning to run errands then work from home the rest of the day.  When we went to go get Aiden, we told him that we had planned to take him to go get ice cream just the 3 of us to celebrate his first day, we said he would prefer to go get Baylie first b/c he thought she would really want some ice cream too.  Such a good big brother! :)  We enjoyed some Marble Slab ice cream to end a good first day.