Smarty Pants

I know . . . don’t fall over!! A timely post from me!!! We survived our move and are slowly getting back into a settled routine. You will be giddy to know that I have several new posts already written and scheduled to publish over the next week or so. My attempt to “catch up”. Let’s see how quickly I fall off of the “timely post bandwagon” this go-around.  It is sad that the last post was almost 2 months ago (that I only have 15 posts for the year!) and that I was writing about the end of the school year the last post.  Ahhh, here is to fresh starts!


Bennett & Kendyll were excited to start school yesterday. They are going to the same school this year (we love it!), but there are some changes. Previously they were separated and each in a mixed age class of 3 – 5 yrs old. But based on feedback from a yearly parent’s survey, the school decided to implement a true “pre-K” class for 4-5 yrs old. There is only one class of this type, so that meant B&K were going to go back into the same class. While there were several advantages to having them in separate class rooms – they made their own friends and had time/space away from each other -- there were just as many disadvantages, too (for example, we had to limit the number of kids invited to their birthday party because they each had 21 kids in their class. And there was no way we were having a party for 40 kids!! Plus their classrooms didn’t coordinate together, which meant on several occasions one kid was wearing PJs to class because the other kid’s class was having PJ day and they didn’t think it was fair that one got to wear PJs while the other didn’t. Oh the “fun” of being “equal, but different”).

So this year B&K are in Kendyll’s old classroom with Bennett’s teachers from last year. And the good news is that most of their friends from their respected classes are in this class now. Plus one of our BFFs Ava (yes, our beloved Ashley's Ava!!) is going to B&K’s school this year – and is in their class – so they are all sorts of excited about that.

We really loved Bennett’s teachers, so we’re hopeful this ends up being a good thing. Don’t ask me what we plan to do next year (yet) . . . I think part of it will depend on exactly how the elementary school is set up (for example, we wouldn’t have one of them go to a morning session and the other to an afternoon just to separate them, if you know what I mean). I’m sure we’ll have a LONG list of pros / cons for separating them or keeping them together, but I like to think that decision is a several months away.

In other news, the ten thousand pages of paperwork for the school year requests B&K's height and weight.  Bennett is now 43 in and 37 lbs.  Kendyll is 42 in and ::wait for it, wait for it:: FORTY-FOUR POUNDS!  No wonder I had to go out and buy homegirl a *2nd* summer wardrobe for school.  Geesh!!

I wish I could picture bomb this post now with tons of adorable “first day of school” photos. But unfortunately, Miss Thang was not feeling it yesterday (our allergies have been in raging fits this week . . . and since Kendyll *still* sucks her thumb, when she can’t breathe at night it leads to restless nights . . . for all of us!). Here are just a couple somewhat decent photos, just to document the day.