First Day of School 2009!

Justin got home on Sept. 5th and it was a very happy reunion. He got home just in time to send the girls off to their first day of school later that week and to celebrate Addy's birthday on the same day.

Emma our 1st grader and Katrina our 2nd grader

outside waiting for the bus with Annabelle who is a kindergartner this year

'catching' the bus

the parents

proud parents

School Days

We had some big milestones this September. Katrina started Kindergarten this year and Emma started preschool. Katrina started on the Tuesday after Labor Day and Emma on Wednesday.

I posted some pictures of their first days. They were both so excited to start. Last year Katrina went to a private christian preschool that was just wonderful. She went 3 days a week and we loved her teachers. It was preschool only so was very academically focused compared to some preschools and also had the bible and character principals. I really loved it and she loved going. Emma, by the middle of the year, was REALLY wanting to be in preschool and go to school like Katrina. It was getting difficult to tell her she couldn't go so this year she was so excited and so was I! She loves it so far, and has the same teacher Katrina had. I think it will be so good for her to have something of her own that Katrina is not involved with. It's been an interesting time for me as mommy to have both my oldest in school and just watching them grow before my eyes. Its such a bittersweet thing for me. I so love this age and stage we are in right now but I also look forward to them growing and becoming more independent. I just can't believe how fast this life and their childhood is going by. I'm so glad I still have one little one at home, I don't think I am ready to send them all out into the world yet. I had a really hard time with the thought of Katrina going into the public school system this year as a Kindergartner but I amazingly didn't even cry on her first day! I guess I had gotten that all out of my system last spring.