Kindergarten... Here she comes!

Rory's first day of kindergarten was Tuesday, August 19th. She was really excited....up at 6:15 to get dressed! Note the cool brown and pink backpack (the product of about six trips to the store due to her inability to decide on one) and the Hannah Montana lunchbag (Dad thinks she's a little young for Hannah Montana, but it was the easiest decision of all).

Soren was also excited to take Rory to school. She really can't wait to go to preschool next week. (Stay tuned for further information!)

We all drove Rory to school and walked her to her classroom where she hung up her backpack and put her lunchbag in the lunch basket. Then she sat at a table and found some beads to string (mostly because I just wanted a picture of her sitting at a table). She really wanted to play with the wooden dollhouse she'd seen at Unpack-Your-Backpack Night, but unfortunately, it was not a choice.

If you're sitting there thinking, "Gosh, there aren't many kids in that classroom," there are two explanations:

1) We were a little early. School doesn't really start until 8:15, but we got there about 7:55 (slight over-acheivers that we are). They let the rest of the kids in at 8:00, so I'm pretty sure once Chris and Soren and I left the room did fill up a bit more.

2) In kindergarten, they do a "split-start," meaning Rory only goes with one-half of her class every-other-day for the first two weeks, while the other half of the class goes on the alternate days (that's a rather technical explanation for kindergarten, isn't it?). After Labor Day, the entire class will be together everyday.

It was an early-out day, so Rory came home on the bus about 1:30. It seems that her favorite parts of the day were:

1) Riding the bus

2) Eating snack (goldfish crackers and OJ)

3) Going out for recess (something about walking on a swinging bridge)

Tomorrow she'll ride the bus TO school. She's REALLY looking forward to that!

*On a side-note, Rory wasn't feeling well at the end of the day. In fact, at dinner time she was running a low fever. She got really concerned that she won't be able to go to school tomorrow. She seems to be better this morning!