My little Angels:
Today was your first day in your brand new suburban school. You guys were so excited and it didn't seem to phase you at all that you were heading off into totally unchartered waters. Which by the way is just one of the many things that I love most about both of you. You guys are the very definition of resilient with just about everything you do. You are always up for anything and if you were one bit nervous about today, you didn't show it at all.
You woke up, sprung out of bed and got dressed in your "normal" clothes. Another first, no uniforms this year. You get to wear whatever your little hearts desire or more realistically whatever my little heart approves of.
We ate breakfast and started off walking down the street to your bus stop, another first. What a nice concept. A bus picking you up. In the six years since Belle has been attending school, three for you Lil, we have always dropped you at school and picked you up. I LIKE the bus. Not having to parade through the sea of children and adults, school bags and double parked cars, it is really nice.
At the bus stop we met four little girls, all from the same family and when they found out who your teachers were, they told us that we had gotten so lucky because the teachers were both so nice. We met your teachers the day before when we dropped off your school supplies and I have to say I agree with everyone's sentiments. Your teachers are so awesome and you both are so blessed to have been assigned to their classes.
Back to the bus stop, I think tomorrow we may have to work on our strategy for the bus stop drop off/pick up since today Daddy and I went to the same bus stop that we dropped you at before school and you guys did not get off the bus. I just about had a heart attack.
The little girls that were at the bus stop that morning told us that you had gotten off the bus at the stop before the one that we were standing at. Daddy and I jumped into the car and he backed the car up the very long street about a hundred miles an hour at which point I faintly heard someone yell "Mommy" and literally jumped out while the car was still moving.
There you were sitting at our neighbors house waiting for us to come home. From the bus, Lily saw our house and decided to get off at which point Belle, you had to follow or you would have been separated from her. So after we all calmed down and started breathing normally again, we spent the next twenty minutes talking about or more appropriately disagreeing about what drop off and pick up means.
Belle you insisted that tomorrow morning you would get "dropped off" where we got on the bus this morning (aka, picked up) and would get "picked up" (aka, dropped off) where you guys got off the bus this afternoon. Tomato, tomaato, we'll try again tomorrow.
I love you girls and am in awe of how effortless you make everything seem and I am so happy that together we survived your first day at your new school.
Love,
Mama
