Back to school (with no undies)

This morning the kids returned to Westbury PS. Oliver in kinder, Hallie in gr 1 and Sarra in gr 4.
What do you get when you mix 3 pairs of shoes (pic above), 3 school bags (and one baby who wanted to play with the bag tags),

and 3 lunch boxes?? (drink bottles were in freezer ready to stay cold for today's scorcher)

3 very excited school kids eager to return to school.

Or in the case of this one, his very first day!!!

He looked so grown up in his school shorts with his school bag on his back. Little did I know that when I had asked him to get dressed, he ended up not wearing any undies for the whole day. (talk about a bit of chafing on such a hot day:) He had worn his Hawks boxers to bed and had taken them off to put his school shorts on.

Going to school Tuesdays and Thursdays until Easter and then after Easter, Tue, Wed and Thurs, although Wed is optional so we will see how he goes.

Grade 4 and trying not to think that high school is just around the corner.

Yes, Oliver is now slightly taller and yes I still get asked if they are twins.

I know, her hair was done beautifully before the hat got scrunched on.

Sorry, using dodgy point and shoot as the SLR is away with Simon.

Here Oliver is settling in doing a puzzle with Noah and Mrs Rixon (aide).

Oliver was not phased at all as here at Westbury and similarly at alot of schools down here, they have a Early Learning programme which sees them do 2 hrs a week in the classroom they will start kindy in, with the kindy teacher and with the kids that will be in their class.

They do it for a whole 2yrs before they start kindy. Plus Oliver tagged along when I did it with Hallie so he had been in the classroom since he was about 2.

Made the transistion super easy. He has a lovely number of 16 in his class, 8 boys and 8 girls, the same kindy teacher that Hallie had too so you couldn't ask for a better start to the year.

Which leaves me 2 days a week with just this little munchkin.

He keeps me on my toes.