First Day of School
Annika's special manicure (cheetah spot nail polish strips).
As usual, impossible to get a perfect shot of all three!
We must face east, the sun was directly in their faces. I told Josiah and Annika to hold up four and two fingers, respectively. William, contrary to his fingers, is NOT going to be a sophomore this year.
When you walk with the preschooler, you walk as through quicksand. Oh well, I'm doing them a favor by keeping a distance. Josiah's getting to be of the age where he squirms a little when I hug him in public.
A view that I will miss if we ever do return to the Midwest...the ocean, I mean, not Yokosuka.
Playing at yet another playground (commissary in the background and for those curious, the white building on the hill is, I believe, the weather station).
The low building in the foreground is The Sullivans. The story of the Sullivan brothers is pretty interesting...there were four or five brothers, all serving on the same ship during WWII. I need to do some research, but I believe the ship was lost, along with all the brothers.
We had a great first day of school. It was bit hard to shove the girl out of bed this morning...of course they love to sleep when they have to get up, on the weekend, they'll be up at 5:15 a.m. Sigh. Everyone was dressed in good time, breakfasted and had their turns on their devices. You didn't expect me to send them to school without waffles, bananas and Nintendo/iPad/Kindle, did you? That's part of a daily recommended breakfast in our household. Josiah helped out by assembling lunches and we joined the throngs of people walking to The Sullivans. It was pure chaos out front, but tomorrow will be better, now that we know where to line up. After we dropped them, it was barely 7:30, so Will and I went to another awesome park close by, played for about 45 minutes and then headed to the commissary for a few things. We're shopping like Europeans, but we live so close it doesn't make sense to walk home, get the car, then drive the little way back.
I guess school was OK. They were plenty happy to see us when we came to pick them up and they both said they had good days. They had art. Josiah has a student in his class who was in his second grade class at Butts Road Elementary in Chesapeake--how funny is that? Annika has a very small class, only around 15 students in her room. Lunch was good. No homework tonight.
I can't believe that this is Josiah's FIFTH year of school!
