First Day- 2nd Grade Edition.

Ah, the rite of passage for fall... today is the first day of school for the Miminator, and she was very excited and a little nervous. She has Miss Hajeck this year, who is the teacher she wanted, and one of her best friends, Fiona, is in her class.

She got to bed early last night, took a shower this morning, wanted a quick bangs trim ("so I don't have to spend the whole day pushing them out of my face") and put on the outfit she picked out last night. Her backpack (recycled from last year) was filled with her school supplies, all lovingly labelled by Mommy, along with her lunch in her brand-new High School Musical lunch bag.

Hot, hot stuff.

And check out these new Nike kicks. And how gorgeously tan her legs are.

The bus came on time and she jumped right on like it was nothin'.

Meanwhile, Jenna stood on guard just in case the bus wanted to pick her up, too, and then she could finally go to school. We have another two weeks until preschool starts and she asks me every day if today is the day she gets to go to "stool". In the picture below, Jenna is standing next to our pumpkin plant, started as a seed by Michaela at the end of 1st grade and has taken on a life of its own. If my posts suddenly stop in another week or two, it's because we have all been eaten alive by this plant. Hopefully we'll get a pumpkin out of it(right now it just flowers and grows, flowers and grows) in time for Halloween.

And here is one last picture of Michaela, taken last night before she and Dan went out to dinner for Chinese food to celebrate the start of school. She got these clogs yesterday on a last-minute shopping trip, and they have an animal/cheetah-type print on the top. She is highly impressed with them. She also wanted to put her hair back and put on a little makeup to look nice for the dinner.

I think we're in trouble deep.