Boys Will Be Boys

Amazing what a new hair cut does for making a little boy look so grown up.

Not only did I have to get used to the idea of Braysen starting Kindergarten this year but what I think made this back to school time even more difficult was knowing Merrick was starting too.  Something about your youngest heading off to school and no longer being “the baby” was tough for me.  It was like double whammy of sadness that they are both growing up so fast!  A few days after Braysen started school Merrick started his preschool journey.  He is attending the same preschool that Braysen did for the last 2 years so that’s a nice comfortable feeling and I can’t say enough good things about this preschool!   He’s been there a bunch to pick up his big brother so it’s a nice familiar place for him but now he gets to stay and play instead of me trying to rush him out the door.  He has been wearing his backpack around the house for a long time now and has some jealous moments caused by Braysen’s cool lunchbox and his dinosaur backpack.   You can say he was just a little bit excited about starting school like big brother!

His first day was a parent-child day so I took the morning off to go with him.  It’s a get to know the classroom and basic routine day with circle time and playing mostly.  He loved the play dough area..seriously the homemade stuff is the best so I don’t blame him for not wanting to go elsewhere at first haha!  He did quite well, with only a few moments of wanting to escape circle time because he spotted toys he wanted to play with.

We had a long summer of weekly speech therapy for him and we made some progress but he still has a long ways to go sadly.  We are in the process of getting his records to the school district to hopefully have them do early intervention therapy with him at his preschool during the school year. 

Here’s a few pictures of him during back to school week!  We had scheduled a hair cut for him the week before school started but of course Braysen got sick and then Merrick caught it so we had to cancel. Murphy’s Law!!  He’s definitely needing a shorter style! 

1st day of school (hard to pick one so I put both up)

Some of him in the class (taken from iPhone so quality is eh)

I’ve always thought that phrase was funny…now there’s this harsh reality about it!  We are off to a exhausting start of a new school year.  It’s a huge change for the whole house really because we have both of the boys in school and I’m trudging away at my classes too.  As usual we have the chaotic schedule.  I’m not sure what we will do when our lives aren’t a crazy scheduled mess but we are years away from that…maybe when the boys have grown up (which is definitely something I dare not think about because they’ll stay “little”, right?).

Braysen is officially a Kindergartner and is in all day!  Merrick started preschool 3′s. Tues/Thurs am’s.  I have more credit hours this semester and more work hours.  What was I thinking?  Plus, there’s running all of us to/from places and we haven’t started the extra-curricular sports stuff yet.  I’m waiting to schedule the swim lessons/karate type stuff until October so we can get our bearings with the current schedule first!

I thought it’d be funny to put a picture of our spreadsheet that I make up every semester and give to everyone involved in the chaos (in-laws, daycare, work and of course it hangs on the fridge).  We also keep a Google calendar organized with various lovely color coordinated calendars.  I’m not sure what we’d do without Google calendar!  They are blurred out a bit because I don’t think people need to exactly see what our schedule looks like ..privacy issue type of thing but you get the general idea! Chaos I tell ya!

I’m doing lots of posts right now instead of giant ones..or trying to separate out them a bit!

Google calendar synced with Outlook and on our iPhones with Calengoo

Excel calendar we keep on the fridge.