First day of FIRST Grade!

Cole hopped right out of bed yesterday morning all geared up and ready for school!  He was pretty excited to see who all was in his class.  There are 20 kids and only 2 are girls!  Poor Mrs. Ramsey!  She's going to have her hands full.  Cole picked out some cool wrestling shoes for school!

He was also super pumped about his mario back pack, but really happy about the new toy story clothes he picked out for his first day! 

I am so excited I have a first grader!  He's grown into such a handsome little man!

Harold is still his bus driver this year.   I sure hope he doesn't retire before my boys are grown!  He's the best!  Cole loves him to pieces.  He really has made putting my child on the bus a lot easier for me!

Cole came home and said his first day was boring.  All he got to do was fill his pencil box with crayons  and then play outside.  Oh and go over the rules.  He didn't like that much!  They were only in school for a couple hours then they got to come home.  Today is their full day.  They go until 2 until labor day.  After labor day they will get out at 3.  He starts actual classes today.  He should be happier about that.  He must have gotten wore out at school yesterday though because he came home and slept from 1-5:30.  I couldn't believe he napped for that long.  He woke up and said he was exhausted!  Brody sure does miss him when he's gone.  He waves bye bye to him in the mornings, but then he takes a morning nap now.  He's got some peace and quiet around here!

My grandpa Trone is not doing so well.  He was put in the hospital last week.  He said he has horrible back pain, and they've x-rayed him and can't see anything wrong?  The Dr is wondering if he doesn't have a cracked rib from laying around so much?  Compression fracture?  He's so confused and disoriented it isn't funny.  He thinks while he was in the hospital that he was really in the nursing home, he thinks he still works at the hospital and keeps waking my grandma up at all hours of the night for his uniform, he's been retired for 20 some years.  He keeps thinking he is scheduled for surgery and then yesterday when I went in there he kept calling Brody, "Cole" and insisting that I had taken him to the Dr yesterday and that he told us he had a hole in his lung.  He is so confused.  It makes me so sad to see him like this.  He gets things straight for awhile and then it all slips his mind and he loses it all again.    My heart breaks because I think he might not get his mind back this time around.  He's been out of it for a week now.  He would not like to be living like this.  It's so hard on everyone.  Especially my grandma.  She's just exhausted from taking care of him.  My mom is sick.  She's exhausted.  It's just sad thinking for brief periods of time he has lost a major chunk of his life.  His memories are totally gone.  He doesn't remember some people and even remember things that happened.  I sure hope he gets rest and his mind comes back to him.