Getting Ready

This is a big week for us!  Logan is starting school - real school, prekindergarten on Tuesday!!!!  Last Thursday night, we went to the school for orientation.  He is going to the school that I attended from kindergarten to twelfth grade.  He has the same teacher this year that I had in kindergarten.

Yes, that's water all over his shirt.  Guess he needs some practice with that water fountain!

 He keeps asking why he can't go back to his old school.  I'll be honest, it would have been easier logistically to send him back to where he has been going.  But we feel that this is going to be a better place for him, to give him a head start on schooling.  He is going Monday - Friday, 8 - noon.  At noon, a lady from our church will pick him up and take him to my grandma's house -- he's been going to her house all summer. 

He wasn't that excited about a new school until we got to see his classroom on Thursday night.  Now he keeps asking when he's going to go!  My brother is the vice principal there, so Logan is going to have to get used to calling him Mr. Atchley.  But on Thursday night, Logan walked right about to Dave, stuck his hand out to shake and said, "I know you're the spanker!"  We've warned him :)

During the time when we went into the classroom and the teacher was talking, Logan looked at me and said out loud, "Mom, are you sure this is a great idea?!"  And as the teacher was telling us about different field trips and such, she mentioned one where the whole class goes to her house and they can walk in the woods and find things but "NO snakes!"  And Logan was so upset about that...he was trying to get out of his seat, but I held him down.  At the end, he walked up to her and said, "Mrs. Ross, why can't we find snakes?"  He is VERY concerned about that and asked her again today at church!

I can't wait to hear all the stories about Logan being in school.  He was already the most talkative one in the class loudly asking "Is this the time out seat?"  During her speech, as well.  Oh my.  She's going to have her hands full with that one.  But it will be good for him and we are both excited and sad to see him getting ready for this new journey in life.  I know he's going to have so much fun and make so many memories in school!  I can't wait to help him study, do science projects and hear all about what he is learning every day.