First Day Of School

Welcome, Today was the First Day of School for both my 7 year old and my 5 year old. They were both Very excited this morning to go see/meet their friends and teachers. Sami Is in the local Alternative school and he was excited to see his friends and teachers again. Elijah went to meet new friends and meet his new teacher today. We all got up at 5:30 this morning and all 3 kids got ready (perfect training for Christopher) We first walked Sami to the bus stop at 6:30 this morning and both boys cried that their brother was getting on the bus. First Chris Cried because he didn't want his brother to go to school and Elijah cried because it was not his bus lol. Then at 7am we walked Elijah to the bus stop and he got on the bus like a champ and this time it was Mommy who cried. I was but wasn't ready for Elijah to leave today.

Both boys came home with Smiles on their faces and excited that they had a great first day of school. I'm so proud of my sons and they are all growing up so fast. Another two years and Christopher will be off on the school bus to school then Mommy will be lost without her babies. If I had a car Christopher would already be in daycare and going to head start to help him prepare for Kindergarten. I missed my boys today but Christopher was pretty much an Angel for me all day today.

We started a new reward system as well today thanks to Christophers Therapist. She made a list called WAY TO GO which includes the following for their rewards...

Listen the First time
Nice Touches (No Hitting)
Be Loving
Follow Home rules/ Do your Chores
Kind words/Actions

Each time they do exactly that they get  a couple little puff color balls that they get to put in a very large jar. When the jar fills up they have the following rewards to work with:

Special Snack
Special Movie
Outside time
Art time

We are going to impliment an art box for the boys that will have different things in it pertaining to art projects. I have even thought about making a quilt for each of them and each time they are good and they fill the jar they get to pick a new quilt square along with their reward for that day/week. I'm so excited to be doing this with my boys and Now Christopher and Elijah are walking around with their backpacks on acting like they are going to school..

Such a Proud Mommy here!