Hayden's 1st day of 1st Grade!!

Yesterday was Hayden's first day of first grade.  He woke up excited to start school again.  Of course he was too happy to be having a camera in his face all morning.  Oh well I only am this extreme once a year or so. 

Having breakfast.

Oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar

Homemade cinnamon bread toast

and of course a glass of milk.

His lunch all packed and ready to go.

Ham and cheese sandwich

grapes, oreos, granola bar, cool ranch doritos

and of course a juice box.

All ready to go.

His cool lunch box.

Of course it was a typical Wa day.

But we didn't let a little drizzle/rain stop us.

Stop taking pictures...

 we hadn't even left the house.

Ready to go.

Daddy was trying to get him to let me take his picture.

Trying to hide from the paparazzi

Getting a hug Goodbye.

The tears are really trying to break through now.

Bye! Off to find his class.

Getting into line.

And now we wait.

and wait.

And wait some more.

We needed another hug goodbye so we went in and got one.

As you can see he didn't really want another one.

Waiting some more.

A small portion of the madness of the kids getting to their class lines.

This is the 1st and 2nd graders.

Getting ready to walk to class.

Getting his backpack unpacked.

He's ready to learn and Mommy is really fighting back the tears now.

Let the flood gates open. 

yep I cried, I left the room, I wiped my tears and came back

then left again and came back to a huge hug goodbye from Hayden.

This only made it worse.

I was oh so happy when 3:25 rolled around and it was time to go pick up the kids from school.  Hayden said the best part of the day was that he got 3 recesses!  Usually I think they only get one maybe two.  He made some new friends and also has some friends from last year in his class again.

Last night at about 6 Hayden asked us if it was almost 7 yet.  Dan and I both looked at him and asked Why?  To which he replied, we have a boy scout meeting at 7!  So we hurried and got dinner finished, ate and headed back to the school for the informational meeting.  We now are the proud parents of a Tiger Scout.  Last night while we learned more about Boy Scouts Hayden was busy outside earning his first belt loop (or maybe its a belt clip) for playing kick ball.  He will get his award next Wednesday at the pack meeting.

After the meeting we came home and got ready for bed.  Hayden was exhausted and said that he doesn't like being gone all day because he misses us too much.  Both Dan and I tried to assure him as much as possible.  He wasn't as excited for school today as yesterday but he was still excited and was feeling a lot better after getting a good nights sleep.

On Friday, Hayden has his first soccer practice so more pictures are coming.