Thursday, August 31, 2006
 
Noah's never been a morning person. He stays up late, has a hard time sleeping when he does fall asleep, and has an even harder time waking up in the morning. Usually when I have to wake him up for something, like to drop Mark off at the train, Noah usually shouts at us about how we always wake him up too early and we never let him sleep in. It's pretty ugly to say the least. So you can imagine my apprehension this morning as I approached his bed to wake him up for school. What kind of reprimand was I about to receive? Well, Noah flung his covers off him immediately, sat right up and trying as hard as he could to pout and smiling all at the same time (the way only Noah can), he sprung out of bed. His clothes were on in ten seconds flat and he was ready to go. Yesterday, a friend accused me of keeping my kids out of preschool just so they'll be excited to start Kindergarten. And, while that's never been my intention, I'm glad it works. I couldn't get Noah ready fast enough.
Hunter, on the other hand, wasn't so excited about going back to school. It's not that he didn't want to go. It's just that he'd rather stay home and play computer games and listen to Harry Potter cassettes all day. We added up how many pages of Harry Potter he's listened to this summer and it was just over 2700 pages. He's still got volume six to go and I know he'd rather be listening to that than sitting at a desk doing math and reading easy readers. But, he's definitely missed his friends and yesterday at the "meet and greet" he discovered that his best friend, Christian, will be sitting directly across from him at his table. I think that made Hunter's day. So this morning he chose to wear his "Homework makes me crabby" shirt and seemed excited, if not for himself then definitely for Noah. He didn't drag his feet today and I hope it remains that way for the rest of the year. Here's to another school year--let's hope it's a good one.
posted by Shana # 10:05 AM 
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