A Day of Firsts

Last Tuesday was a day of firsts in our house. It was the first day in a very long time that I set my alarm to rise before the children in the morning for the only reason of getting things started early; it was the first day of JP's orientation week; it was the first day that our first child was going to first grade (tear); and it was the first day that both children would start tennis lessons.

Shelby is so excited to be in first grade!!! It is so cute to see her get up every morning and put on her little uniform and get ready. She has usually favored the hair down look but now that she is in first grade she has changed that up a bit. Now she goes for the pony tail look with a headband to match whatever she is wearing. It is so fun to see how her likes/dislikes change, but sometimes it catches me off guard at how all the sudden without warning something changes and then I try to remember exactly when did that happen. Like the whole hair thing....

Our annual fisrt day of school pictures....




It was just the first day of practice school for JP and he actually has this week off. I think that we are all ready for him to be in school. He misses his little buddies so much and we all are looking forward to a little more rythmn and routine to our days. On his first official day he will be going for a whole day with lunch box and all. He can't wait!

Shelby, is that a yawn I see??? She was so excited about her first day that she really had a very hard time sleeping the night before. I just love her enthusiasm for school. She has been known to exclaim to her friends, "Isn't first grade so fun!! We get to do home work and have spelling tests!!!" Oh, now I know she truly is my child:)



There is this tennis program called Quick Start and they have recently started it in our area. It is a great little program that starts with the basics of hand-eye coordination and foot work. This will be Shelby's 3rd session and JP's first. After much discussion and trying to figure out what activity the children would want to participate in we settled on this and it is the perfect fit for us. Both Shelby and JP had so much fun!! You know when you are sitting there watching your children do something and you can just tell that they are truly, 100% enjoying every aspect of what they are doing? Well, that is what watching them last Tuesday was like. You could just tell that they were 100% enjoying everything that they were doing.

JP and Coach Jackie working on bouncing the ball once and catching it while moving down the court



Shelby and Coach Jackie working on hitting the ball after one bounce