Back to School 2014

The boys are BACK TO SCHOOL!  The first day of school was last Tuesday and they had 3 days and then had a 4 day weekend for Labor Day.  It's kind of nice to have those 3 days for them to go in and get acclimated to the routine of the school week.  We tend to be much more lax with our schedules in the summer and even though the boys are always up at 6:30am every day, I never had to be up at 6:30am every day!

Just like last year I did their back to school interview.  Some things changed and some things remained the same.  And of course no back to school blog post is complete without the "first day of..." chalkboard pictures!

David's Favorites!

Shaun's Favorites

Evan's Favorites!

I began getting ready for "back to school" a few weeks before.  David and Shaun were both at different day camps and so it was just Evan and me.  It's so much easier to get shopping done when you only have one rugrat in tow than three!

Mom, we need ALL of these things!

We made a couple trips to Target for back to school supplies and some essentials like new socks and underwear!  I did some shopping at the Mall getting some new jeans at Crazy 8, my favorite place to get jeans for the boys!  Then I took Evan up to Tanger Outlets to see if there was anything else I could get to make sure they would be all set for school.  Evan had fun at the Tanger outlets checking out all the little "rides".  Since he was such a good helper I let him actually ride a few!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!

Merry-go-Round

And of course no all morning shopping spree is complete without a little lunch!

Paneara Bread!  Our new favorite spot!

The week before school was to start and the boys were done with their camps, we made plans for back to school shoe shopping and back to school haircuts!

New kicks!

David's Back to School haircut

Shaun's Back to School haircut!

Evan's Back to School haircut!

On Monday, the day before the first day of school, we had an open house for Shaun.  At the school they offer an open house for kids in 1st and 2nd grade to come in and meet their teachers again and see their classroom.  Evan would have his meet and greet on Tuesday and they don't do an official meet and greet at David's school (he moved next door for 3-5th grade).  I wanted to be able to say hello to David's new teacher, since it's a new school and I don't know the teachers over there (yet!).  She said she would be in the classroom on Monday and that we could stop by.  I was happy to be able to put a face to the name before school started!

After the open house we headed home and because I just didn't want to be rushing around on Tuesday morning trying to get the perfect pictures and because they had to get to swimming right after school, I decided to do our "Back to School" photoshoot on Monday!  You'll even notice that while Shaun wanted his fauxhawk for the Monday pictures, he didn't want to do it on the actual first day!

Back to school!

My handsome boys ready for school!

Of course, that wasn't going to stop me from still taking pictures on the real first day!  We still all walked down to the bus stop together for the first day!

Ready to head to the bus stop!

I have the same picture from last year!

Off to school!

Mom, when do I get to ride the bus?!

Evan was feeling a little down after his brothers got on the bus.  This year both David and Shaun will be in school all day so it will be just him and me except for the 3 days of the week that he is in preschool.  This year he'll be going in the afternoons so it's going to be an interesting adjustment.  We're used to heading out soon after his brothers.  Now we won't be leaving until after lunch.  So we waited all morning before he was able to go to his open house.

Ready to go see his classroom!

Very proud, he wrote his own name tag!

Checking out some books in the reading nook!

After Evan's open house we headed home to wait for his big brothers to get off the bus.  This is the first year that Shaun gets to ride the bus both to and from school.

First Day complete!

And finally, two days later, on Thursday, Evan got to have his real first day.  They split the class up where half went on Wednesday and half went on Thursday to ease them in.

I got this Mom!

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!

He was so ready, we may have arrived way early!