With the Labor Day holiday weekend out the way it was back to business, and business meant school! Harry was going into 4th grade and a year later than he should have been Toby was starting school. What a day! No more little babies for Tracy – they are two naughty school boys now!
Their bags had been packed the night before, so in the morning it was time for breakfast, a photo and then off to school.
Do they look a lot different from this time last year?
We parked up in the side streets and then walked them over to the school. As per last year we had to line up in the gym and wait for the clock to tick round to 9am. Just before 9, Mrs Filter summoned her kindergarten class and off I went with Toby to his classroom while Tracy waited with Harry.
It was all going very smoothly until we reached his classroom when the fire alarm went off! It didn’t just go off for a couple of seconds though – it turned into a full blown fire alarm! So instead of sitting down in his new classroom, Toby and his new class mates had to go out the front of the school and wait for the fire engine to appear! After about 10 minutes the fire crew arrived and all was revealed as a false alarm – with suspicions falling on a dad who had been seen fiddling with the fire alarm in the gym! That’s why mum’s do the school run – dad’s clearly can’t be trusted!
Eventually we were allowed back into the school and Toby found his cubby hole in the class room and stuffed his bag in there. He sat down at his desk and looked like a very grown up little boy waiting for 12 years of school to begin!
After leaving Toby with his new desk friends I left and found Tracy and Harry waiting to go up to his room with his new teacher, Mrs Guilford. Harry was playing it cool though – no standing around with his parents while he waited, he was off with his friends.
Harry was then dropped off with his school supplies for the year and left to it – no emotional farewells from him! And so there we go – two little boys at school and now Tracy has got so much time to herself she won’t know what to do! Apart from tomorrow is Wednesday and they only have a half day on Wednesdays!
