Surgery/ First Day of School

Last Friday was kind of a busy day for us. It was meet the teacher day at the school AND Jess had shoulder surgery. He had to be there at 8:00 am. There, being a good 30 minutes away. Maddox was meeting his teacher at 9:30 am and Mason was meeting his teacher at 11:00 am. Thankfully my mother in law took work off so I wouldn't have to drag the kids everywhere. I ended up taking Jess and waiting with him until they took him back. Then, I came back, did the meet the teacher thing, and was back out to get him by noon. They called me back 15 minutes after I got there so I was feeling pretty good about my timing. Well, poor Jess ended up sitting back in a cubicle for two and half hours waiting to go back for surgery. Whatever! They are so lame with their scheduling.

Anyway, he is doing really well. He went back to work today but I don't think he would have been able to if he isn't working in the office right now. This one has been harder on him than his knee surgery and he has had to dip into his pain pills. He is still a great patient and doesn't really ask for much. I had to post this picture of him 'cause I think it's hilarious. You can tell how drugged up he is. :-)


Oh, the first day of school. As I was walking Mason to his line, the smell of the day was exactly how I remembered it being when I lined up for third grade. Weird. I think I am especially excited for him this year because I remember third grade being a big year for me. You finally felt like one of the big kids at the school. He was pretty excited and he had a great day. You'll notice in the pictures that Mason and Maddox both have student teachers this year. Mason's actual teacher is the one in the white shirt that is only about 2 or 3 inches taller than him. I couldn't believe it. :-)

Maddox was just kind of like "whatever" to starting kindergarten this year. If you know him well, you know what I mean. He handled it all pretty well. He was just like, "K, see ya!" Then after school I said, "Did you like it?" He said, "yeah." I said, "Was it fun?" He said, "yeah." He just had no real emotion about it at all. The only thing is that he is in afternoon kindergarten and I think he wishes he was in morning. He is up when Mason is up and so waiting three hours to go is torture for him.

I have a little video I took of the kindergartners saying goodbye. The video is actually for Lara, Marie, Chelsea, Carolyn, and Lindsey! :-)

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