Its already starting............

I am SO behind on my blog (surprise surprise) that I haven't even blogged about Paxtons first day of third grade and I have to refer to it in order to talk about something funny that Paxton did tonight. He started third grade on the 26th and I was pleasantly surprised at how cooperative he was. He had such a difficult year last year (with anxiety) that I wasn't sure what to expect this year..being in a new class, new teacher, new bus, summer over etc.... But he did GREAT and continues to be doing great. As per usual, on the first day, my sister and I take them to school to walk them to class, help get their lunch numbers etc... They start their day off eating breakfast (in order to take the bus to school he has to eat breakfast there or else he would have nothing to do before school started-for way too much time) so we followed the kids through the food line. Being the mother hens that we ARE we were "pecking" at them the whole way through the line- "get some milk" "you're going to get CHOCOLATE milk for your cereal!?" "Aren't you going to get a banana?" "dont forget your spoon"..ETCETERA!!!!! We sat and made fun of ourselves but pretty much figured the kids were used to it and didn't notice. Which brings me to the ACTUAL point of this post. Tomorrow morning Paxtons twin cousins will be starting their first day of KINDERGARTEN at the same school. I was telling Paxton tonight (thinking he would be pleased to know) that we would be attending breakfast again with them so that we could help the boys with THEIR first day of school to which Paxton replied (as sweetly as he could muster, worried that he would hurt my feelings):

"Uuuuuhhhhh.....mom? When you went with us the last time you kind of talked loud a lot about our breakfast...you know...when we were in line? It was kind of embarrassing........do you HAVE to sit with US?"

I guess its closer around the corner than I thought that I will be taking he and his friends to the movies and having to sit 4 rows behind them, or taking them to the mall only to be required to walk at a distance of at LEAST 10 ft!