With apologies to the LaSala’s (the bus stop is in front of their house), this morning Vince D and I split duties (okay, he did more than me!) in organizing a little first-day-bus-stop Munchkin Social. Vin brought the card table, coffee and mini muffins while I added the Munchkins and orange juice. By 7:55am most kids were munching and mingling while adults snapped pictures and talked about the last remnants of summer (and high-fived about the start of school!) We even had a few new kindergartners join our party for a "dry run" walk to the bus stop. They'll be joining us on the corner full-time on Monday.
And then at 8:10 Marcia turned the corner and brought ole’ #43 down Kenilworth to the screams of “Bus!!!” Kids jockeyed for position in the bus line while parents got their last kisses in. Then it was “all aboard.” Another school year was officially underway. It's gonna be a long year for the little guy. But he's got a great team behind him at Hall and hopefully, even with periodic hospital stays and chemo visits, he'll stay right on track.
Here are a few of the First Day photos.....
JT with his brother and "Robot"
Enough Already! Put that camera AWAY!
Bus Riders, KGartner Kids and Little Sibs
Ready for School!
JT and Ada are off to school!
3 comments:
Lookin' good, James! Welcome back to school.
Well, if we'd known there were going to be donuts, we would have made the trip down! :) (What a great idea, you guys!)
No worries, James - over the weekend Tate told me that he plans to sit with you EVERY day! I'm hoping you can help him keep it together, though. He has been known to get a little crazy with his buddies, and we wouldn't want Marcia to have to separate you guys or anything. I'm pretty sure he can handle it now that you two are big 1st graders, but sometimes he has a bad memory about these sorts of things so you might need to remind him about good bus behavior, OK?
It was utterly amazing seeing James run around and run off with Tate last night at the Hall School picnic. And Don, talking with you and Jenn about all you've been through these past months, I am once again struck by the way you're both handling it. Your grace and humor in the face of such adversity is really quite an inspiration.
And James, love the Red Sox tattoo on your melon!
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