First Day of School 2016!!

The School year has begun!! I am ready for these cute boys to head back to some routine!! This summer we tried hard to work on workbooks, flashcards, and reading but as summer does we were not great at keeping up though we sure tried! They did awesome to clean their rooms and the playroom but we are happy for school to start! We are attending George Washington Academy again, and we couldn't be happier!

Both Boys have been counting down the days and were ready right at 7:45am to head to school!

 Hayden and I went on a little bowling date a few weeks ago and we went after to pick out his backback! This year he chose a hotwheels backback and a super hero lunch sack!

Coleton is so predicatble that i just grabbed his backpack! He still loves minions and so we are going on two years of loving them! I am ready for a new faacination!!

This is one thing that i absolutely love about my school year prep! I have two fridges, one inside and one outside! I use the outside fridges for school lunch items, which makes my lunches so easy! Each day (if they decided they don't want school lunch) i pack a sandwich or somethings similar and i let them head to the garage for three lunch items! My mom gave me the idea last year and it has been amazing! They are all presized in ziplock baggies or prepackaged and they have to school different varieties! We have everything from string cheese, fruit leather, yogurt, fruit cups, applesauce, chips, granola bars, crackers, beef jerky, fruit roll ups, rice crispy treat, and it changes for whatever is on sale at costco!! It saves me! 

Here are the boys class assignments! I was so sad this year that Hayden did not get in his friend marcus' class (sophie his twin sister did though) but he will do great! Coleton at first was sad that he wasn't in Ginger or Ornestos class this year but luckily at back to school night, i ran in to Ornestos parents and they said that they has received an email saying that he was placed in the wrong list and was now in Mrs McCoy's class so luckily they have each other!

We are always a bit nervous when school starts, like any parent, but this year will be an interesting one for Coleton! We have decided as of this past year that Coleton is struggling enough in reading that testing is going to need to be an option! We haven't mentioned much about what has been going on with Coleton mainly because we don't know our selves but we have been concerned since kindergarten that there was an underlying issue that is slowing down his progress, he is a smart kid and loves to learn but often while reading he completely mixes and rotates letter and numbers to where frustration levels get to him so this year we have decided to have him tested though the school to see if they can pinpoint any issues. It is amazing how much we have had to fight to get to where we are, but as a parent we feel like it is a sort of Dyslexia that he struggles with and would love to find out how to help him in school! Like i said, he is a smart kid, very social, and is very creative and loves art but as his mom, i feel like we are missing something that could help him but i just don't know what it is, which is so frustrating as a parent but stay tuned to that and hopefully we figure something out!!