First grade, first day

Mira started first grade today! She was "nervous and excited" and ready to go this morning! We packed her lunch last night (pb&j, wheat thins sticks, pineapple) and a snack for school (apple juice, string cheese, fruit strips), put out her dress (unfortunately, she had to wear pants under it since it was so cold), and looked forward to her first day.
She wanted to wear her hair down today, instead of in her usual pony tail. To look older, perhaps? Her favorite part of school was recess and eating the cookie her teacher handed out. Her least favorite part was doing the work, simply because it was boring. I guess they already covered that in kindergarten.

There were a couple friendly faces at school. There were three kids from her kindergarten class in her first grade class, and she also discovered a friend from the pool this summer was in her class too!

The bus was 20 minutes late to pick up, and 20 minutes late to drop off. So hopefully they'll get the schedule down this week so there isn't so much waiting. Her stop is right across the street from daycare, just like we hoped. She rides with Isaac from daycare in the morning, and is the only one at her stop in the afternoon. But I think the driver will drop her off at the daycare driveway in the afternoons. I talked to him today and showed him where the daycare is, so hopefully, he'll just inch forward a house and drop her at the driveway.

All in all, a successful first day! We're trying to get into a routine, with homework to come, lunches to make, soccer practice two nights a week, plus I'd like to get to the club some evenings! It will be a balancing act to figure out in the coming weeks for sure!