On Sunday we had hamburgers for a fun back to school dinner. Mimi came to eat with us and brought a delicious peach cobbler.
All three boys seem to lose teeth so late compared to their friends and also, so slowly. I was the same way as a kid! Beck let me pull his tooth out, and he was so excited. However, it will come as a surprise to no one that when I gave him his tooth fairy pillow (since he swallowed the first tooth when we were in Cooperstown), he said, "FINE. I'll take this picture and use this tooth pillow but I don't even think the tooth fairy is real. It's probably just you or dad doing all this."
Wouldn't you know, they all went to bed and I forgot to do the whole thing. I woke up at 1 a.m. and remembered, thankfully. So there I was digging out glitter bucks from Logan or Everett- a blue spray painted $10 was all I could find, and a tiny tooth fairy receipt- way to think ahead and have a bunch of those printed former self... so I was up doing all that in the middle of the night, and the next morning Beck hardly mentioned it. When I asked him if he got anything from the tooth fairy he just rolled his eyes and said, "You mean from you?" so I guess the tooth fairy was one and done for him. It made me laugh.
Monday was meet the teacher, Logan's first football practice and schedule walk through, and family worship night. Between all of that, we were pretty much at Faith all day long. Meet the teacher was smooth and easy, and went great. I keep saying those words- but that's all I can think to describe the difference when you're used to so many people in Carroll and all of a sudden it's so much smaller. Everything is just smaller and slower, and it's jarring but also really, really refreshing and wonderful.
We hung out in the coffee shop Hebrews (get it!) while Logan was at football practice and we waited after Everett and Beck's meet the teacher. All of the football boys (all 19 of them HA!) showered and came inside to meet their parents for their meet the teacher/schedule run through. It was a long day!
We met Everett's teachers first! I only got pictures with two of the three. Everett is very, very excited about Ms. Peterson who he shadowed with in fourth grade.
Then we met Mrs. Khoury. Beck loved her, and Nick and I had actually visited her classroom on our tour. I think the boys got great teachers! They knew exactly who we were and that the boys were new from Southlake- it felt very personal and nice.
I didn't bother Logan with any pictures, but it was general mayhem of finding his classes all over the junior high with everybody else. Basically just like what we did at Durham two years ago on a much, much smaller scale. His teachers seemed nice as much as I could tell. We pretty much hung back and the teachers talked to all of the kids, as it should be in junior high. Logan seemed to know several kids from football and Zach and Cohen, which was nice!
Wednesday was the first day of school!! I didn't sleep great on Tuesday night. I actually didn't feel nervous at all, if anything I felt thankful. I just kept thinking about how fast it's going for Logan and picturing him starting in Leslie's class and going though the years, and thinking about how much he struggled last year and how tired he seemed. I just thought about all of that and how lucky we are to hopefully be putting all the boys in a much better situation. I'm just really excited for them and thankful.
We were up early on Wednesday. I set my alarm for 5:15, we got Logan up at 6:00 for his second day of early morning football. He drank a protein shake and he and Nick left at 6:30.
He and I set up his binders the night before with the instructions they gave us, and he left with a backpack weighing about 500 lbs, a gym bag to shower and two giant waters.
I woke up Everett and Beck at 6:45, and we left at 7:20. It was a smooth, easy (there are those words again) morning. It was nice! By now we know some people at Faith, so we said hello to people in the halls, dropped Beck in his class, Everett saw Cohen and walked with him, and then Nick and I went out to the football field were some parents were gathered watching junior high practice.
It couldn't have been easier or better. I really enjoyed talking (and listening to other people talk) outside by practice. There were some Aggies, some people Nick knew from work and Beck's baseball practice... I think we're going to like it here!
Nick and I went to breakfast, and I went home and caught up on the phone with Beth. Then it was time to pick up Everett and Beck at 11. We went to Chic Fil A for lunch and got Andy's frozen custard. Both boys were so happy, although recess was hard for Everett. He missed his friends and having lots of different groups to pop in and out of. He is leaning hard on Cohen right now for support during this transition. He's so lucky to have him. As we told him, Nick didn't have anybody when he moved in 5th grade and that was a whole new state! It's hard being the new kid at times, regardless of the circumstances.
It's going to be good for him and a new challenge to learn how to make friends and be the new guy. I was so proud of him because in class they had to bring a share bag with a few things about them... his teacher told us at meet the teacher he could wait and share on the second day since he's new. He told me he raised his hand to volunteer as the very first person in his class! His items were a shoe because he likes shoes, a baseball ring, the magazine with our family on the cover (to which he said the kids gasped hahaha!), and sour candy because he likes sour candy.
Day two drop off was much the same- Nick and Logan went early, I took Everett and Beck at 7:30 but today I stayed and got a hot tea and went to chapel to see what that was all about. It was sweet and well done. I was amazed at how well all of the kids behaved during it, too. The boys were in school all day today, so I went and worked out, walked the dogs with Kylee and just enjoyed getting things done in a QUIET house! Excited to pick all three of them up here in a little bit though! I'm so excited to see what this year holds!!
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