I woke up this morning at 7:30 am to an alarm and then promptly hit the snooze button. I had 10 more minutes. When it went off the 2nd time , I was confused. It’s been months since I woke up to an alarm, but then I remembered….it was the first day of school! I thought for sure I’d have to wake up Braedon and Riley, but as I sat up in bed, I glanced over and saw 2 little bodies in my bed with me. It was the 2 youngest and I have no idea when they snuck in bed next to me. But there they were, cuddled up under the down comforter. I went to go wake up Braedon and he wasn’t in his room, but down stairs all dressed and ready to go to school. Riley got up and was dressed in about 2 nano seconds. Do you think they were excited?
At about 8:08 they started asking if it was time to walk to the bus stop. I remember the exact time because I was trying to fill out paperwork they had to bring back and I was interrupted every 2 minutes
. You see, their bus comes at 8:48. Finally around 8:35 we started for the bus stop. It’s at the end of our street, but this morning I wanted to come and get some first-day-of-school pictures.
Here they are waiting at the stop sign…..
and we continued waiting and waiting. I forgot my watch, so I didn’t know what time it was. So I decided that a few shots of each of them might be nice….Riley did ok, but told me that the gray overcast sky was to bright for his eyes. I tried my trusty tricks of having him close his eyes and then look at me, but it just wasn’t working out. So then we decided to take pictures of their shoes they got last night. If you follow me on Facebook, you were lucky enough to hear about the ordeal of shoe shopping with 3 boys. To sum it up I said this “Shoe shopping with 3 little boys? NEVER AGAIN” Riley got the gray and blue slip on Vans, and Braedon got the Sketchers z straps (actually Braedon got the Vans too, but also needed shoes for gym class, I doubt he’ll ever wear the Vans since he’s obsessed with the Sketchers….please see explanation below)
Next it was Braedon’s turn for a portrait…..well…..you can judge from the look on his face if it went over well or not. And THIS friends is why I do not take pictures of my children! Doesn’t his face just say it all? He looks thrilled right? And let’s also be honest. Braedon needs a haircut in the worst of ways, and I just didn’t have enough time to do it yesterday. Even little Kasen saw this picture this morning and said “OH BRAEDON HAS BIG BIG HAIR”….*sigh* I promise I am a good mom and keep the grooming up on my kids. After school today we’ll be visiting the barber shop!
this has only secured my will to GET some great photos of my kids. IT WILL be done. Maybe I need to bribe with ice cream or something. We’ll see………..But Braedon was MUCH more interested in my taking pictures of his fancy new shoes. They light up when he walks, so now he “stomp walks” (yes I made up that word). He stomp walks and stares down at his feet to see the blue lights. I don’t think he’s ever going to take these shoes off. I tried to get a picture of them lighting up, but only one tiny light was caught……
annnnndddd….another example of why I need to take more photos of my kids. Out of 15 pictures not one was Riley looking at me. WHYYYYYYY? I still like this photo though…..
ok, by this time, I was wondering where the heck the bus was. We waited a few more minutes, and the usual horsing around at the bus stop started kicking in. Usually the boys walk to the bus stop and I watch them from our front porch, watering plants or something like that. Often I look up at the bus stop and this is going on…
There are 3 schools that service the area we live in. So when another mom was walking back to her house I asked her what time it was and she told me 9:06. At this point I thought we had either A) missed the bus as it might have come SUPER early, or B) it was running REALLY late. So we started walking back to our house and I was resigned to driving the kids to school for their first day. But no…as SOON as we got back to the house, the bus came and we had to sprint back up to the stop sign and get them on…and yes, we were sprinting! Then it was off to school they went….I got just a few snaps of the bus as it was leaving. No little boys looked out the window to wave bye to me this year….I guess they’re tool cool for that now Riley is actually sitting next to the blond little boy looking out the window smiling at me. GOOD BOY TYLER! You know what to do when a mom is standing at the bust stop with a camera! At least HE smiled at me I can’t wait until they get off that bus at 4:30 and tell me all about their day!
next week, I’ll be documenting Kasen’s first day at preschool! The other 2 never went to preschool, but Kasen will this year. What am I going to do all by myself 2 days a week? I’m getting old……Happy Wednesday!
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