(Home)School Pictures and the First Day

We have a back-to-school tradition of taking pictures of each child on the first day of school. In addition to taking a picture, we fill out a little "About Me" booklet asking about favorites and listing information like height, weight, and shoe size. I'm hoping that it will be fun to look back at these little booklets years from now.

If you would like to see the booklet or print one here is a link to a pdf version I created. I will paste the photos I took (below) onto the "picture of me" page, but I also let each child do a self portrait on a "drawing of me" page. There are also pages for them to draw a picture of our family and to trace their handprint.

If you want to see how much the boys have changed, you can see last year's pictures here. Here are the pictures I took today:

Wesley--3rd grade

Eli--1st grade

Justus--1st grade

Hayden--age 4

J.D.--age 3

All the boys were happy, eager students today. Hayden actually cried when he had to go to nap instead of "doing math" and Eli requested more spelling. Wesley commented several times on our great new school setup. Even the new chore assignments were met with cheers of excitement. (Chore post coming soon!)

I'm not naive enough to think this will last, but will definitely enjoy it while it does. (And document it here to remind myself how wonderful the first day went when I need encouragement in February!)