Mr. Lucas Goes to First Grade

Today this guy started 1st grade. Technically, its his first day...everyone else's second day.  We are starting a day late due to a family wedding in California. However, the first day was just a half day and his teacher insisted that missing the first day wasn't a big deal.

The weeks leading up to school starting, Lucas was excited. He was ready to go. He had his backpack, shoes, lunchbox and uniform all picked out. However the night before school started he suddenly decided that he didn't want to go...it was a combination of nerves, exhaustion from driving from California to Arizona and missing his Dadi and Dada. Although we got him to bed on time, he didn't fall asleep for at least 40 minutes.

Thankfully, the morning went well. Once he saw his friends from Kindergarten and his new teacher everything was ok.

I'm looking forward to seeing what this year holds for Lucas. First grade is an exciting time...learning to read, and do math...but also meeting new friends and becoming more comfortable in his new home environment.

I'm also looking forward to having some more one-on-one time with my girl. I have two more years until she starts school...that's going to be hard for me...so I need to soak up as much Mama Alara time as I can.

Please pray. 

PS. Happy Seventh Anniversary to me!

final trip of the summer

Today is the first day of school, and we are currently driving across the California desert towards home. This was our last California trip for the summer. My husband's cousin got married over the weekend and we drove out to attend.

It was a beautiful wedding. Alara was so excited to be the flower girl. Her reaction when seeing the bride for the first time was to exclaim "I'm matching you!" She loved being in the wedding and didn't want it to be over. After the ceremony, both kiddos had a blast playing with their cousins. I took a back-up dress just in case it was needed, but nope..not only was Alara careful while playing...she didn't spill anything on the dress during dinner.

In addition to wedding festivities, it has been a busy week.  The kiddos and I spent a day with my Mom in Laguna Beach, Richard and I took off for San Deigo for the day and in-between all of that my sister came to have lunch with me and Richard got to catch up with old work friends. All in all...a great..but busy way to end our summer.

Wish us luck tomorrow for the first day of the second day of school.