Jake’s first day of school

Well, Jake has just got on the bus and is now off to school, wearing his favorite color, yellow.  Grandma Murphy sent him this back to school shirt. He was wearing his Lightning McQueen shoes from his aunt Patti. He was so excited, I was so nervous.  I was up before six doing the dishes and fretting about his first day of school meanwhile Jake decided to sleep in till after seven, something he never, ever does.  He chose his breakfast of french toast, sausage, eggs and orange juice but he barely ate a bite, I guess it was just nerves or the fact that he wasn’t awake quite yet. Last night he did his first homework assignment which was coloring an apple by following the instructions.  Then he wanted to pack his backpack with the markers that Grandma Olsen gave him with two caps and the computer paper that Grandma Murphy gave him. He wanted to do everything all by himself, I guess he is growing up.

He was so excited to get to school we were out waiting for the bus about a half hour before the bus came, and I thought we were running behind this morning.  Andrew and Isaac were waiting with him all decked out in their backpacks so that they could be like their big brother.  Jake also brought out his Dog and Buzz so that they could watch him get on the bus.  I gave Jake the whole lecture on listen to your teacher and don’t push in line and then he told me that I needed to be gentle to his dog and bunny while he was gone and that I needed to make sure to pet them.  But he doesn’t need to worry because Isaac loves his animals and is thrilled to take care of them while Jake is away.

We have an eight year old neighbor boy named Peter who offered to help Jake get to school and get to his class on his first day so Peter arrived to take Jake off to school.  Jake was so excited he thinks Peter is the greatest thing ever.  Peter’s mom told me that Peter had it all planned out, he was going to teach Jake the rules on the bus like waiting in line and being quiet at the railroad crossings.  He also told his mom that he would take Jake all year if he had to.  I am so glad that Jake has him to help  him out at school. Jake couldn’t wait to get going, as soon as Peter arrived Jake was ready to get in line, and any one who knows Jake knows that went Jake is excited he can hardly control his body.  He was jumping up and down and talking up a storm.

They got in line and for Jake the bus couldn’t get their fast enough.  When the bus did get there Jake got on with out hesitation.  I was a little worried that when the bus finally got there Jake would be too scared to get on but he climbed right in and found a seat in the back (our bus stop is the last one so there aren’t many seats left.  So Jake is a school boy now and the only tears I shed were at 5:50 this morning.  All in all, so far anyway the day has gone really well.