Carter's First Day of Kindergarten

Carter started Kindergarten a few weeks ago at Wellborn Elementary, and except for already missing two days due to a virus, everything is going well. He doesn't tell us much about it (in some ways he seems 13 instead of 5), but his teacher has a blog for the classroom that keeps us in the loop. The commute is all of 2 minutes from our driveway to the drop-off, so I am LOVING that! I had to drag him out of bed the first two weeks, but this week he asks to go to bed early so that he won't be tired. He has been rushing me out the door in the mornings. So, I would say he is enjoying it!

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ME! said…

I am glad that Carter is doing good in school. That is interesting about the class blog. Wow. How far we have come from over a decade ago when we were in high school. Okay, maybe that has been a while. YIKES!

September 4, 2008 at 9:27 AM

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