Third grader at last

Yesterday Aidan started school at Blue Ridge, after a very busy week and a half of Adam, myself, and our "helper" Zander packing up our entire house and moving into our toy hauler in the front yard of my awesome parents (we may now qualify for "redneck yard of the week" with all our vehicles, camper with carpet to cover any mud, and scattered toys) we are finally settled in!

On Monday I went and picked Aidan up from a fun week with his dad, then Tuesday we went and met his new teacher and explored his new school. As we walked into the school we saw Aidan's ex stepmom and stepsister walking towards us.... Aidan has never gotten over the loss of that part of his family, and still almost a year later will just randomly break into tears over missing them, mostly the stepsister, Courtney, who is the same age as him and they were very close. It was the cutest thing, when the two of them saw each other they both ran yelling the other's name and met in the middle with a huge hug and jumped up and down screaming and hugging. Her mom then told us that they were actually in the same class.... more jumping and screaming, and talk of lots of fun. What a great way to start off the school year if you ask me!

On Wednesday I took Aidan to school and Courtney met us at the door to the school and they walked to class with arms around each other, he told me they have eaten lunch together and played together at every recess. He is very happy and loving third grade.

Zander has developed a love/hate relationship with the big yellow school bus, he hates it in the morning when Aidan has to get on and he can't and he cries and yells "no bus!" then at the end of the day he hears it coming and yells "bus, Aidan" and runs to the end of the drive way to greet his long lost brother with a big hug.....

I have no idea how my baby boy got to be so big, but what an awesome, and pretty good looking, boy he has turned into!