First week of school

Let me just start this out by saying that my girl is not a morning girl...wonder who she gets that from??? I think this is one of the main reasons she has been dreading starting school, well that and she has to take the TAKS test this year. It's not that she gets to sleep in during the summer. She still has to get up and go to daycare while I go to work, since my lottery retirement plan hasn't worked out for me so far, but for daycare she rolls out of bed, puts on some clothes and gets in the car, thus getting about 30 extra minutes of precious sleep. She loves the fact that she can eat breakfast after she gets dropped off at daycare!!! On school days, she has to get her breakfast in before heading out. She takes after her aunt Rebecca in that she doesn't like to eat right when she wakes up in the morning. She would prefer to be awake at least 30 minutes to an hour before actually having to look at food, but since she likes her sleep she is forced to not only look at food but try to eat it right after getting up. Doesn't she look so excited to be heading off to school for the first day?



After she eats as little of her breakfast as I will let her get away with, this little one crawls back into bed until her mean mommy yells at her to get her shoes on and her teeth and hair brushed. Then we come to picture time for the first day of third grade...another thrilling moment for J I'm sure. She is at least good about humoring me and posing for her picture, and so here we are on the first day...

She picked her clothes out for the first week on Sunday, because that also saves time for her in the morning, or saves her from me picking them out for her. This year I was proud of myself for just letting her wear whatever she had picked out and not trying to convince her that she had much cuter things in her closet that she could have chosen. This one has her very own since of style and her own ideas about what looks good, doesn't matter whether you agree or not...she is very confident in her fashion sense!!!

Below is her day 2 outfit. Took a picture of it so MamMaw could see what she helped her buy. Jaden was very excited to have some money to do her own shopping with and picked out and bought this shirt and shoes herself, so thanks MamMaw for giving her the chance to shop for herself, she had a great time!!!

Day 3 got a picture because she decided to wear her hair down for a change...probably because she got a haircut over the weekend even though I told her she didn't really need one since her hair is in a ponytail everyday anyway!!!

And since we did the first three days, thought we'd finish up the last day of our 4-day first week of school with a final picture...back to the ponytail of course. Every Friday J wears one of her school shirts, this years is our favorite so far. She was really excited when she saw it for the first time!!!

Anyway, her first week was good. She was glad to see all of her friends and really likes her new teacher so far. Hopefully it will be a great year and not go by too quickly cause my little girl is getting way too big way too fast!!!