First Day Of First Grade

Keaton started first grade on September 8th. He is in his second year of the Spanish immersion program. Just a week into the school year he is already speaking quite a bit more Spanish at home. He will say a sentence to me that is half-English, half-Spanish. Keats is mostly excited for recess and lunch, as you can imagine. First Graders get recess every day, regardless of the weather, AND they get to have REAL BASKETBALLS AND RED RUBBER BALLS during recess. Lunch is in the REAL CAFETERIA and this is very, very exciting. His school has a program where I can go online and put money into a lunch account for him so we put $25 in there last week. This means he can eat school lunch if he wants. He is excited to try this but has thus far been too nervous to try it out.

Why must they stick out their butts when they want a shot of their backpacks?? ;o)

The shoes. This is as important as backpack and lunch box choice. Keats loves the brand Geox. They are, naturally, very expensive. However, I buy them on clearance at Nordstroms a size or two ahead. He loves them and I love that they don't fall apart after two weeks!