Johnson Family: September 2011

Elliott started school today in fact. I took the day off so I could be there for him... plus I had a lot of other things to do. Anyway, Elliott got to meet his teacher the day before. Her name is Mrs. Dummer. She is super sweet..and in fact possibly younger than myself. Elliott made a really good impression on her and she did on us. Elliott was neither over the top excited, nor scared to go.. he was just go with the flow. He had his lunch code all memorized by the time he left for school. I can't wait to hear how his day went. It was actually raining the first day of school, so I didn't have to just drop him off on the playground, Brent and I were able to walk him into the building.... he put his bag in his coat cubby and walked off with Mrs. Dummer who was waiting for him. I said I wouldn't cry, you think I could wait until I at least got out to my car! NOPE...I cried all the way to my car.... Don't tell Elliott that!

Update: Elliott had a great first day of school. With that there is always a story to be told! I picked Elliott up from his first day and I didn't really want to ask him too many questions and have him get annoyed at me, but I had asked him how his day was and he said,
"good! except my knee got stuck on the playground."
I of course said oh no! I didn't want to press him with questions, so I let it go... than later that night he says to me..."mom, you know when I got my knee stuck, my friends tried to help me out and I told them no thank you, but that isn't working...then my friends went to go and get the playground teacher to help and when she got there, she couldn't get my knee unstuck either so...... she went into the building to get some soap to see if that would work.....well that didn't work either... so.... they went inside to get MR. Otto to see if he could get my knee unstuck and by that time the bell rang and all the kids ran back into the school and there I was still stuck in the playground equipment all by myself! Finally, Mr. Otto was able to get my knee unstuck and I could go back into the building with the others. I was then of course late for lunch then."
Well after all of that, I was like you poor thing and now I am looking down at his knee and it was red on one knee. I felt terrible... so I am thinking to myself, I going to be surprised if he even wants to go back to school after that.
I was wrong... he was still just as excited to go to school the next day and beyond. What a trooper.