First Day Adventures

We always try to do a few fun things the first day of school.  This year I made candy pencils for the kids out of Rolos and a Hershey Kiss. 

The big, crazy adventure of the day was Jake's Missing Lunchbox.  We got to school extra early with all our supplies.  Being the old timer that he is, Jake stuck his backpack and lunchbox in the boys line outside and ran to play.  When the bell rang, he ran back to his place in line to find only his backpack there, his new lunch box had been swiped!  A missing lunchbox and first day of school jitters about did him in, but Jake pulled himself together and teary-eyed, still managed to remember to give his new teacher the special apple he had picked out for her.  Trevor and I searched the classrooms and playground, but couldn't find his lunchbox.  We left to take Trev to school but ran into the principal on the way out who put out an A.P.B. on the missing lunch box.  Apparently they take these things quite seriously :) 

The force is strong with this one!

I made Jake a second lunch and Luke and I went up to the school at lunchtime, just in case the lunchbox hadn't surfaced.  As Jake came around the corner to the cafeteria, he was swinging his lunchbox.  Jake was happy to have his new Clone Wars lunchbox safely returned to him, and Luke was excited have his own lunchbox, now that Jake didn't need the second lunch.  Hayley later told me that someone had come to all of their classrooms, looking for a "Star Wars Lunchbox", but she didn't know it was Jake's that was missing until the end of the day.  Apparently another boy had the same lunchbox and saw Jake's and grabbed it, not realizing his was in his backpack. Whew, crisis averted!  Jake informed me the next morning, he would be putting his lunchbox in his backpack so no one could swipe it again.  And who says you don't learn anything on the first day of school?!!

After school we were ready to chill out in the 100+degree weather.  We headed over to  Baskin Robbins and redeemed one of our summer library rewards for free Ice Cream cones. We met some of our friends there and had fun chilling and talking about the day.

Much later that evening, Michael finally arrived home, complete his own set of adventures on the bus.  Apparently his bus driver likes to drive around in circles and wasn't quite sure on the location of the schools.  Too bad the bus isn't equipped with GPS or air conditioning for that matter, it was a long, hot ride home!  We are glad everyone survived and are ready for another day!