First day of grade one

Well, my baby was off to school this morning. Grade one, I can hardly believe it. She was nervous, but brave. Some of her classmates were crying, but she was quiet. She was adamant I walk right to the door with her, and when she was just about to go in, she wheeled around to me and says “Bye mom, I’m going to have a good day at school and I’ll see you later”. How sweet is that!

In keeping with a fun tradition, I made her a “Schultüte”. It is a German tradition that on the first day of Grade One each child gets a large paper cone filled with candies and school supplies. I wasn’t quite organized enough to give it to her in the morning, but she got it after school. Here is a picture of her with it.

At lunch which wasn’t quite as quiet as I’d thought (workers installing shelves in our back mudroom) I fed Joseph some raspberries. He made quite the faces at the initial taste!