back to school

a pancake breakfast to start the morning. it doesn’t look that appetizing really, but they liked it.

blueberry pancakes with a banana, M&M, bacon face

Adam seemed totally ready for his first day of 3rd grade. (sighs in relief)

Barrett was ready to walk out the door…with his backpack on…15 minutes before it was time to go. he’ll be in the same program as last year…which is 2 and a half hours a day with speech therapy. 

…notice Barrett has something in his hand?…and the sneaky look on his face tells it all. i’m always having to check his pockets for stuff that he sneaks in there.

so while the boys were at school i worked on a back to school cake (with help from hubby)… it’s a brownie cut into the shape of a pencil. i got the idea from the Family Fun website.

check out the giant piece of notebook paper! (it’s a piece of foam board that we decorated with colored pencils)

and all that hard work was devoured in a matter of minutes…

After a massive amount of sugar was consumed…we went outside to play with some water balloons…(a great stress reliever, btw)

and after John was over filling a million water balloons …they played in the sprinkler

so now it’s back to helping with homework…driving to and from school 6 times a day…and chaperoning field trips.

it’s so nice getting back into a routine though.

and the start of school means that fall is getting closer…my fave…here’s hoping we’ll get some nice fall weather here in the sunshine state.

um. a girl can dream can’t she?

i hope everyone’s having a great start to their school year.

LoVe…