Jacobsen Adventures: First week is in the books!

First day of school picture - ha, ha, ha... Yes, we officially returned to school on Thursday last week with in-services until Tuesday and then our students returned Wednesday. It was great to be back in the classroom with my 'normal' students. After my summer school experience, I will be forever thankful for the teaching position I have.

I can hardly believe that I will be taking Sister's official first day of school picture on Wednesday. She had her kindergarten screening this week and her teacher said that she's more than ready for school. Umm... you think! This newly five year old is sounding out words, doing addition and quickly figuring out what i-c-e c-r-e-a-m spells when Papa and I are trying to be sneaky. While I was a little concerned about Sister's class being 23 students (and expected to grow) and she has two teachers who job share the position... I was happy to hear that the teachers each have over 5 years experience with kindergarten and over 10 years of teaching experience. So, that gave me confidence that each teacher will find ways to keep little miss smarty pants engaged during the day... I hope... Honestly, I'm nervous for her, but excited too. Sigh... new stage of parenting - right?

Mother Nature has been blessing us with some amazing cloud action...

to finding a simple grasshopper...

Grasshoppers are not very common around here. So when I squealed with delight and caught this little guy, my kiddos looked at me like I was crazy. Oh, you sweet Alaskan babies...

And of course with the start of school it also means that start of coaching season for Papa. Adding football to the schedule this year (wrestling and then track) will leave the kids and I on our own often. However, watching Papa enjoy coaching is worth the semi-solo parenting. The kiddos also enjoy watching their Papa in action.