Yesterday was the first day of school. I woke up feeling like it was too soon then once we got going (and I had some coffee), the excitement built and then whoosh... we were off to school with smiles and nervous anticipation on the girls' faces. Mei Mei and Papa both walked with us down to the school for the big moment. It was a gorgeous morning and it couldn't have gone smoother. 
First we dropped off Tiny who was so elated to see her friends that she hadn't seen over the summer. All the girls were jumping up and down in a Ring Around the Rosy fashion, just as you would expect 2nd grade girls to go. There was also much screaming and hugging all around. We left Tiny to line up with her class so we could go see Chachi off to her class.
We got over to the upper grade blacktop and all the fifth graders were lining up before the bell rang. You could see they were happy to see one another but there was a sense of nerves you could almost feel radiating off of them. The expectations on them at the fifth grade level is immense and I think most of them knew it. But they were all standing in line, chit chatting and comparing summer activities but there was no jumping, screaming or hugging. But there was a lot of "playing it cool, calm and collected." Which made me chuckle because there was a group of girls standing just in front of the class and I KNOW they would have liked nothing more than to be holding hands and talking about how freaked that all actually were.
We got to see them both off into class and then it was time to go. To leave them to their new environments and Papa, Boobs and I headed off to Starbucks for a white mocha and bear claw. We walked home and stopped at the park. Boops got to go down the slide about a hundred times and ran himself until he was dead dog tired. All in all, it was a great morning and after school, we got rave reports about how their teachers were great and all the nerves seemed to be for not.
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