Most kids crash and crash hard after their first day of all day Kindergarten. She was up by 6am that morning, ready to go. School doesn’t start until 9…oy…
This kid does not crash. She was so pumped after her first day, she swam…she swam for 3 HOURS!!!!…
…for new crayon boxes, sharpened pencils, and new duds. Yep, the new school year is here and we are REA….DY!!!
We had ‘Meet the teacher’ on Tuesday night and started school on Wednesday….well, Tuck started. Sawyer had to wait until Thursday because of the Kindergartners easing into the schedule, but they are now both off and running…
She found her desk right away…
Tuck showing her around the Kindergarten room…
”you sooo don’t want to have to sit in that chair, Sawyer…”
We got the great news that Miss Jacks gets to stay in the Ross family. She is Sawyer’s Kindergarten teacher too…we LOVE her…
Tucker found his desk in Mrs. Stemple’s room…
She is so SUPER cute and fun!…
There he is….my big First Grader…on his first day…tear…
And there is that KINDERGARTNER!!! I can’t even believe that she’s going to big girl school. She looks so little next to the other kids…but her personality sure makes up for her size
And then there’s this kid in the middle…
…the sweet sweet baby who I was sure could not live without them all day…
…nope…he’s good…never asked about them once…
…there they go…together…that makes me happy…
…and there’s Sasserella at her absolute happiest…she’s been waiting for this for a whole year
Yeah…she owns it. Doesn’t she just look like a teacher?!?…
It’s gonna be a GREAT year!!!!
So the summer has come and gone in a milli-second. Branson is an every year thing for the Ross’s but this was Sawyer’s first year to get to go out for T-ball. She loved the sport, loved her coach, and is pretty excited for next year. She is showing some pretty fantastic athletic ability. She may be my mini-me but she is so much more in to sports and competition than I ever was…
Those helmets are so darn big…
We were able to go back to Lake Wilson at the end of July for our ‘almost’ annual Ross/Bucholtz family camping trip. We went 2 years ago but were unable to meet up last year due to harvest schedules…darn Mother Nature…you just never know what her plan is. We were so happy to get to go back this year. That lake is beautiful and it is never boring when this family gets together
From this camping trip, Tucker and Sawyer left for Granny Camp…quite possibly THE BEST part of summer for both them and me
Darrin, Porter, and I made it in time for the parade and fair…specifically the DEMO DERBY…
OH YeAh!!!!
(thanks for the pics, Grandma Bucholtz…darn camera battery)
And… maybe the biggest news of the summer…………………………………………..
TUCKER FINALLY LOST HIS FIRST 2 TEETH!
yep… a little freaked out by the fact that he had been working on those darn things for about 5 months….a little freaked out by the fact that it took one face-plant into papa’s pool table…and A LOT freaked out by the fact that that pool table interaction knocked not 1 but 2 right out of that kisser…
(both above pics taken by cell phone…we just weren’t prepared for this)
And the thing is…the 2 baby teeth took so long to come out, the 2 permanent ones were completely through about 2 months ago…crazy lookin’ kid! He may be a little snaggle-toothed right now but we’re really REALLY hoping they find their way to the front of his jaw and quit growing towards his tongue…ewwwww….
No matter what, he’ll always be handsome in his mama’s eyes
