Emily is A First Grader!

I cannot believe my baby girl is a first grader! She is so precious and so beautiful and so grown up all ready.

She's already a pro at the whole drop off and pick up process of course from last year and gets testy when you treat he like she needs to be told something she already knows, LOL. :)

But even at just two weeks into school she is already missing me. We have already planned on making special efforts at mommy/Emily time a regular thing and much more often than we do. I have made it a point recently to take her on Mommy "Dates", you know, girl time, like shopping trips or going to the mall or the park just the two of us and leaving the boys behind. We are going to go get our nails done together sometimes too, really rarely because I don't want that to be a regular thing that she expects or thinks she has to have done for her to have fun with mommy, because we can also paint our nails together at home. But it would be fun to it together once or twice at a salon and she is just flat out excited about that.

She is starting dance lessons this year too. I am excited for her as much as she is excited. She absolutely can't sit still anyway and loves to dance so I can't wait to channel that and see what talent she may have as well as teach her grace and self-discipline through group instruction.

We also want the kids to be exposed to the discipline of some form of martial arts as well as dance, as well as the comraderie and physical training of team sports of some sort, whether it be baseball, soccer, or basketball. I'm not real thrilled with the injury level of football, although I love the game. Lance can attest to that. He played all through high school with the team that the tv series is based on. He played against Emmett Smith! Wow! He's got some great stories to tell. Anyway, football? I don't know.....that will be Blake's choice when it comes to that, though.

Anyway, first grade.....wow! This is going to be a great year! I can just feel it!