Sarah's First Day of Kindergarten

It's still crazy to me that we have a Kindergartner! Sarah absolutely loves it and looks forward to it each day. She's in the AM half of the class and I think we have to wake her up about 15 minutes earlier then she would like. It's a bit of a scramble every morning to get Sarah off to school by 8:30, but it seems to be going well. Mary is enjoying her more focused time with Nathan, and he seems to be benefitting (read: talking somewhat coherently and a little bit more) from the added attention and tutoring. Sarah's teacher, Mrs. Murphy, seems really great with the kids and has over 20 yrs experience teaching. Sarah, who's not used to using Mr. or Mrs. with people, will often refer to her as "Murphy", which I always laugh about. Mary has discouraged me from telling Sarah to refer to her as "Murph" or "Murph-Dog", which I've been able to restrain myself from. We're happy with things so far and Sarah seems to really enjoy it. The routine board has been helpful for Sarah taking responsibility of getting ready each day on her own(though it's certainly been far from perfect!).

Sarah's very conscientious about her manners at school (at least we taught her something... even if it isn't always applied in the privacy of her home... neither are some of our parenting beliefs :*). Anyway, she will often come home and tell something to Mary about another student at school, ie: "Mom, there's a boy in my class named Nathan, just like my brother Nathan" or "Tayah was there today, Mom" (a friend from church). Mary will often then ask "did you talk to them" or something along those lines. Sarah will tersely reply: "No Mom! That would be interrupting!" Oh yeah, what was Mom thinking! It's pretty cute. Anyway, just the beginning of a long road for us and her!