Second Grade

Yesterday was the first day of second grade for Charlie.  We had a fun summer but he was ready to go back to school.  I'm so glad he likes school because I liked school too.  Life is just better when you like school as opposed to when you hate it.  There were some aspects of school, mainly social, that I disliked but on the whole I liked it because of the learning.  The love of learning has been a great blessing in my life and the older I get, the more I realize how rich my life is because of it.

Let me stop before I get too far astray from the point of this post...  I was really proud of both kids for getting ready without me having to do any yelling.  We were actually early!  What great start to the year.  :-) Ellie was excited for school to start too.  She is so ready for Kindergarten - even though it won't be for another year.  She will start pre-school next week and she is so excited!

In this picture, Charlie is making a silly face.  He does these fake smiles whenever I take pictures of him now and I don't know how to get him to just smile his naturally cute smile.  Oh well...