It was a good summer, but I think we were all ready for school to start. Maybe not the little guy … he didn’t understand why his playmates were suddenly all gone!
I volunteered to be PTA president for the next two years. With 4 boys in the elementary school this year, I knew I couldn’t devote enough time to each one’s classroom, but I could do good things for the school as a whole. Our first big gig was Back to School Night the evening before school began. It had a carnival theme and was busy and wonderful and everything I’d hoped it would be! Amazing things can happen when you surround yourself with good people! However, I was an exhausted momma trying to get these boys off to school the next morning and just didn’t have the energy to deny Bobby the right to stand in the pictures with his brothers.
Thankfully, he would move out for at least one picture. Rusty started 1st grade …
And Bobby is back.
Billy started 3rd…
And there is Bobby again.
Ricky started 6th grade…
Aren’t they all so cute together?!
This is what I got when I asked them to be superhero statues. Sigh. I love them!
Off to the bus stop …
The school year started really well except for a poorly handled bus driver change situation. The adults involved forgot that these aren’t just cattle being hauled by unknown drivers. They love their bus driver and, after school on the second day, they were yanked off their beloved bus with no warning or explanation and told to get on a stranger’s bus. This caused concern and confusion. Thankfully, I was at the school and came out as it was happening. I was able to figure out what was going on and ended up just taking the boys home myself. I explained to them what was going on and, they were fine. They’ll miss Tom, but they’ve accepted Todd as an okay bus driver for now.
Tommy had to wait a week to start kindergarten…
Bobby wouldn’t stay out of Tommy’s pictures either!
No fear from this man. He knew exactly where to go and what to do when he got there. How did he get so big? When did they all grow up?
Where did these guys go?
Big or small … I DO love them all!!