The day after Labor Day, on September 4, Samantha and Amelia started Kindergarten! Samantha was excited to start school with Miss Holly and Mr. Michael. 

Can’t believe it! Sniff. 

The Class of 2031 doesn’t seem that far away…

Samantha’s first day of kindergarten interview: 

Self portrait. Samantha draws way more detailed pictures than this, but was feeling really silly at the moment. 

Amelia was SO ready to go back to school! She loves the structure of school, and especially reading, writing and coloring. She was constantly nagging me to print out worksheets and read BOB books with her over the summer. Both the twins were obsessed with practicing their writing and answering Brainquest questions, so I was hopeful that the “summer slide” wouldn’t be too bad for them. 

Amelia was supposed to have Miss Becky for her morning teacher (same teacher she’s had in preschool), but sadly, Miss Becky’s son passed away over the summer, so she took a leave of absence this year. Fortunately, Miss Thashika and Miss Shah were pulled from the other classes to be in Amelia’s class this year, so Amelia was already familiar with them. 

Goof balls. Their poor teachers. 

In the morning, the girls are in separate classes and after lunch in the afternoon, they are in the same class with the nine other kindergarten age kids with Miss Linda. They just adore her! Their class is called “AP” and I’m not sure what that stands for, but they were ecstatic to be the big kid “AP-ers” this year after watching the older kids get to be in that class the past few years. Now they are the leaders of their morning class and it’s been so cute watching them help the smaller kids. They take their responsibilities as class leaders seriously!

Samantha 2018. 

Amelia 2018.

The summer was fun, but let’s be honest… everyone was VERY ready to go back to school. One of my favorite parts of back to school time is their uniforms! There’s a few different outfit combinations they are allowed to wear for school and they pick their outfits out the night before so that there’s no arguing in the morning. They usually choose to match. I love that they have a few choices, but that it’s not complicated picking out what to wear. 

We took some back to school pics on Labor Day in preparation for their big day! Can you tell Meredith, Eleanor and I are excited? 

Happy Back to School!

The twins kept hiding and screaming from Meredith who was blasting them with the squirt gun. 

Random video from earlier that weekend of the twins hiding from Meredith’s deluge. 

Their real first day of school! (School logo edited out since this is posted online). 

Jake took them on their first day and reported back that there were some tears at drop off. Then, when I dropped them off the next day– no tears! For weeks, whenever Jake did drop-off, the teachers told me they cried so much, whereas they went merrily on their way for me. I don’t know whether I should be offended or what. They sure do put on the waterworks for Daddy.

Apparently, we forgot Samantha’s glasses the first day. 

It was very quiet around our house… almost too quiet. Meredith and Eleanor were bored to tears and I started thinking maybe it was actually easier having the twins home over the summer because they are so good at entertaining everyone!

Despite some separation anxiety whenever Jake did drop off that week, the girls had a great first week and quickly got back into the new routine. 

With getting back into the lunch-packing routine (ugh), and the morning craziness of getting everyone dressed, fed, hair done, teeth brushed, baby fed, and out the door at 7:45 everyday, I actually started missing our relaxed summer mornings!

On top of not exactly relishing the morning routine grind,  I agreed to once again be the Room Mom for Samantha’s class, even though I definitely could have pulled the “New Baby Card.” I was also asked to be the Room Mom for Amelia’s class since it’s basically all the same information I’d have to send out by email and the other Room Mom couldn’t do it this year. Double Room Mom Duty eek! Happy Back to School, Samantha and Amelia Mom!

Lots of love,