Life Cycle of a Newly Minted Kindergartener

6:00-6:30am - Awaken excited. Dress fairly fast. Brush teeth and sink (don't ask).

6:30-7:00am - Eat, run around in circles, tackle dog, try repeatedly to turn on TV

7:00-7:05am - Walk, skip, leap, occasionally trip and fall on way to bus stop

7:05-7:10am - Show everyone lunchbox ...whether or not they want to see it.

7:11 am - Board bus

7:12am - 2:44pm - ?????????? (I'm sure it was fun)

2:45 pm - Disembark from bus, slightly sweaty, still quite excited

2:50pm - Arrive home, throw backpack, run to Wii and turn on Lego Star Wars

2:51-4:00pm -

Scream at sisters about how "a force is not with you" and have sisters scream back, "Stop killing me Matthew!" Inform mom, "Sorry mom, a force is not with you."

4:01pm - Demand spaghetti. Now.

4:02pm - Apologize to mom for being sassy.

4:03pm - Ask nicely for spaghetti.

4:05pm - Inhale spaghetti, try to return to Lego Star Wars...which is somehow now missing.

4:06 - ??? pm - Cry pathetically to emphasize displeasure at the interruption of game

5:15-6:45 pm - Go to pool and play, jump, splash, and burn lots of energy.

6:50 pm - Arrive home

6:51-7:00 pm - Run around naked

7:00-7:10 pm - Start shower; use entire bottle of shampoo. Again.

7:10-7:30 pm - Finish showering (aka - flooding the bathroom) and put on PJs

7:31-7:59 - Eat ice cream, resume search for Lego Star Wars

8:00pm - Pass out in mom's bed after being upset that Lego Star Wars is still mysteriously missing...

First Day of School 2009

The kids were excited to start school today. Not so excited to get up, but that's to be expected.

Matthew was happy, grinning, goofy, and wanted to hold my hand instead of pulling away and complaining. He showed everyone his new Transformers lunchbox. Those who didn't heed his call were poked and forced to look at the Transformers lunchbox until they were appropriately amazed.

There were 15 kids at the bus stop today. That is probably double the number that will be riding the bus the rest of the year... Notice also how many girls there are. We found out yesterday that there may be 3 more sisters joining the school in a week. So, that will officially make the the neighborhood odds roughly 14 to 4 in favor of the girls. If you added youngsters not in school yet, you'd have to bring that up to 23 to 5 (including 3 sets of twin girls). Seriously, there's something in the water here that makes more girls.

Quote of the day: Allison and Julia saw the moon still out as we were walking to the bus stop and told Matthew, "Look, there's the moon." Matthew looks up and says, "Yeah, but he's not my friend."