First Day of School!

Ready for school!
The big 1st grader.
Heading to the bus stop. Ridge's stop used to be a few houses down the street but now it is down the street and around the corner. It will not be easy, or fun, to get everyone ready and out the door when it is raining. I think I'll end up driving Ridge to school more often this year. I'm sure he'll get more comfortable and walk over there with the other kids (they are all 4th grade and up) from our street in a few months but until then...
There he goes!

It almost didn't happen, the teachers were going to strike, but luckily they didn't and Ridge went off to 1st grade! He was a nervous wreck the night before; he said that school is boring and he just seemed so anxious. Eric gave everyone a father's blessing and it seems like the day was happy for everyone despite the tears the night before. It was a lot easier for Ridge (and me) to get on the bus, neither of us shed any tears. Eric went into work a later than usual so he could be there too. Then he took Cannon to preschool. Cannon was so excited to see his friends again, he was giving everyone hugs. He is happy to be going to school too. After school a few girls in his class told me that he was mean to them at gym. At least he is nice to his sister, we'll have to work on being nicer to the girls.



Laine and I had a quiet morning. I was able to get the mountain of laundry folded then we took Sommer to the Dr. At her 2 week check the dr put silver nitrate on her umbilical stump because it wasn't doing a good job of falling off on its own. It finally fell off yesterday but it looked weird, at least to me it looked weird, not like a belly button should. It actually does look like like a real button, smooth and peachy, but that is just the top part that folds over this gunky mess. When you push back the smooth part then there is this pussy gunk and redness. So since none of the others had this yuckiness I took her in to have it checked. Turns out it is fine but she is going to have one major "outie" if it doesn't even itself out more. That's one way to keep a kid modest. I was mad because we waited for 30 minutes in the room and then had 3 minutes with the Dr. Not that I needed more time with her but to wait that long? Since Sommer was asleep, Laine and I played trucks so Laine got some good mommy time which means that my time sitting there wasn't a complete waste. The dr did apologize but I think she really should have thanked me for getting her closer to being on schedule for the day. If only we lived closer to Lark and Parker so I could have stopped by for medical advice.