First day of third grade
posted in OmegaDotter, Parenting, School |So OmegaDotter is starting third grade today. Ah, me! How the time is flying! We recently looked at some pictures from just two and a half years ago, and she looked so much younger. Now she’s swiftly moving into the “tweens”.
We finished her new bedroom look, and she is thrilled. Zebra stripes, bright pink, orcas everywhere, and her most favorite stuffed animals clustered by the headboard of the new bed:
This is probably the last year I’ll be taking her into her classroom on the first day of school. I asked her on the drive in (all four minutes of it!) whether she wanted me to keep doing it, and she was rather firm on the subject. So we marched in, meeting her teacher from last year acting as traffic cop in the hallway; Mr. Snows was pleased that she got the particular teacher she got and amused that her partner in crime and best friend A. was in her class but carefully placed at the opposite end of the room.
Here she is, all dressed in her new teal outfit (it’s more teal-y in person):
You can’t see it, but she is sporting brand new pierced ears. I had been saying she could do it when she was twelve, but this past weekend, when we were buying new school clothes, we stopped into Claire’s as usual, and another girl about her age was getting her ears pierced, and…well…there you go.
But, while she’s getting bigger and more grown-up by the day, she also still likes to play hard. She spent the other day “sneaking” around the house as a ninja. As she’s wearing a pair of my sweats that she begged to have as hers, she looks like a droopy-bottomed gangster:
It’s been a busy few weeks. Lots of things going on. I may pull myself together to post on a current “hot issue” over at the Rumor Queen.
Then again, I may not.
