First Day of School

It has been our tradition to take the girls' First-Day-of-School pics in front of the plum tree, but apparently Robyn is growing too tall for this!

They were excited to make their own lunches and pack them into their new cute lunch boxes we found at Target. (The "Eyeball Store," as Macy calls it).

Me: Carly, how was your first day of school?
Carly: Long...the lunch room was cah-ray-zeee! There was nowhere to sit, so we sat on the floor...My teacher was really nice. I'm glad I got her. She got out her guitar and sang Willaby Wallaby Woo.

Now that Carly is a big first grader, she's waxing philosophical on us. Some of her observations and thoughts during her first week of school:

Why is it that things are getting more expensive these days, but smaller at the same time. You know, like yogurt?

I would say that kids who buy lunch throw about two thirds of it away. That's sad, really, really sad.

(After a guy listening to his iPod walks right by her) I liked it better before we had all those things, you know like iPods and cell phones and stuff like that because then people talked to you and they were nice.

I wouldn't want to be really rich 'cause then you'd just be sitting around piles and piles of money wondering what to spend it all on when you should be worrying about things that are more important.

I wouldn't want to be a queen because then you could never do things for yourself. You'd be sitting there ordering people around all day and that wouldn't be very nice.

On the second day of school, we woke up to no power, which ended up lasting for 24 hours. After hearing many of us adults whining and complaining about such an inconvenience, Carly asked what happened. When I told her a semi truck tipped over and knocked down a few big poles which snapped a lot of wires, she said very sincerely, "Oh, that man must feel really bad."

Dry ice saved our food from spoiling. Myles is always a man of good solutions!

Robyn is enjoying choosing her hair accessories every day. She's excited about her new school and teacher. "She is like the best...ever!"

She's already made salsa with her class from their school garden. Man, you'd think we lived in Oregon!

I'm sad for summer to be over, but am sure grateful for all the new things the girls will get to learn this year.

The next several posts will be catch ups from summer.