School in session!

Short classic Gibson story- as a last hurrah yesterday, Gib, Joshua, Aiden, Donavan, their moms and of course Delaney got lunch and hit a park for the afternoon. On a pouting jag, Gibson went to a far bush, where he found what I thought was dog bone toy. He wanted to pick it up , and I was kinda like- that's gross, but I guess you can, and kinda walked back to my friends. He comes up and is like- look this bends! I look down and he has the "toy bone" in one hand and A DEER LEG IN THE OTHER- COMPLETE WITH HOOF AND SOME RESIDUAL FUR FUZZ. I start yelling for hand sanitizer and all the other moms gag!!!! Only my boy would find a severed LEG to play with!!!!

So school has begun!! Gibson is the BIG Kindergartner! His first official day was today, Wednesday, but there was an orientation where he got to meet with his class and learn some about the school yesterday.

Last night, I discovered that the bus pass was WRONG and all the literature we have on bus policies is that they are STRICT about where you meet the bus, and who gets on where and stuff. For those of you who know the area, we are on a dead end due to a creek with no bridge, but the road continues on the other side. The transportation office doesn't acknowledge this and had his stop on the OTHER side of the creek at an intersection that as the crow flies is close, but in truth is about a 3/4 mile drive or walk. So I start crying (of course), I am upset that my baby might not get to go to school on the bus and that I am going to have to fight the policy and all kinds of stuff. In utter defiance, I just take a pen, strike through the wrong site, and write in our street names! Derick, oh- follower-of-rules FREEEAAAKKKKED out when I did this, and swore our child would never get on the bus EVER!

This morning, I explain the sitch to Gib and of course he starts crying that he wants to ride the bus! I am on the phone with the next door neighbor ,who is a more seasoned mom to find out what to do. I also read book about angler fish, sharks and other sea animals to calm us all down. To appease Derick and to try to get Gibson on the bus, I take him to the assigned stop and less than a minute later the bus flies down the road. I grab the camera, the video, am trying to film and capture this momentous occasion appropriately and shuffle the little guy on to the bus, all the while explaining to the driver, who seems to be just learning English, about the mix up. Gibson is all acting like a teenager and rolling his eyes and dragging his feet (as you can see in the pictures....)

And in mere seconds he's gone!

I get in the car, and Delaney is bawling because "brob-bah" is gone and she wants to go to school and on the bus, and watching the bus zoom away, I started to tear up. Derick pulls up and is surprised he is gone already. we drive home, and I have to pull right out and go to the school to make sure he got there ok.

As I turn onto the road where the school is, the now empty bus passes me. I get to the school and it is a mad house. I make my way to kindergarten "yard", to his teacher's line and -he's not there. I THEN LOOOOOOSE it! His teacher is thinking "we gotta gusher!!" and says, "we'll find him". I explained that the bus has been there because I saw one of his friends that was on the bus in another line and I saw the empty bus. A girlfriend of mine takes Delaney out of my arms, so I can focus on Gibson, and I hear behind mehim- "We found him!" I wipe off my tears and turn to him and he jumps up to hug me and is so excited I was there. I talked with him and his friends a little and then his line went into the school!

The transportation office told me to just cross out the printed stop and write in my own. Derick had to leave the office when I called him so they wouldn't hear his guffaws!

Gib got home a half an hour late, but the bus left him at the right place! He enjoyed school enough I think, and he proudly presented me an adorable picture of "The Kissing Hand" that we had read on Monday to prepare him for school that he had made me! HE also made a fantastic picture of an Angler fish, and a shark! Here's to tomorrow!