first days of school

the end of summer came crashing down, coming back from socal on a sunday and evan starting school the following wed. This year he said he wants to be a pilot when he grows up. I didn't take him to school, but i did go and pick him up to take his first day of school picture. That still counts, right?

we went to meet the teacher, the day before school officially started at Las Lomitas. found out that dylan's teacher was going to be Mrs. Koyohara on monday, the day before meet the teacher. was a little disappointed because we were hoping to have Ms. Marchi (of course Elly has her). perhaps one of our boys will have her. we walked to meet the teacher and was a few min late from the official start time. We waited in line to introduce ourselves to her, and didn't realize that there was a specific order to which we were supposed to do things, according to the checklist she had on the first table (i didn't realize that there was a first table). little did I know that we had to sign up for a time for the child's assessment (none of which worked out with our schedule, so we had to create a new time), and that the entrance to her class was actually the back door (we were schooled on this by Mrs. Kiyohara). brian, austin and i were able to send dylan off to school. for this year's sign - he said he wanted to be an engineer for fast cars. where did the time go?

I was able to volunteer on the second day of school - i was supposed to take pictures of all the kids in his class. I was really looking forward to it, and it was fun to see dylan interact within the classroom setting, but was disappointed by how poorly the pictures turned out. i'm way out of practice. i should have just taken the pictures form my iphone. should've, could've, would've.

it's been such a joy to walk dylan to school. i love loitering around to see what happens on the playground in the morning. some days he sees elly and they run off together, another day he had his arm around cyrus and they walked onto the playground together. so sweet. my heart aches that i won't be able to do this very often when i go back to work. i need to figure out how i can try to do this at least once a week.