The BIG KG

The girls are officially in the big KG or kindergarten this year.  I don't know how that is possible as it seems just like yesterday we were bringing them home from the hospital.  I feel like this is the end of little kids because kindergarten if official big kid status, like all day school, bus rides and homework.  The girls were excited to go and even wore their twirl dresses.  Josie said she was nervous and excited to go and Ella said she was excited and wanted to see all her friends. 

 

A few changes this year, the girls will not being going to afterschool program anymore and will be riding the bus.  Since I get off work 15 minutes after school is released, the girls ride the bus home and I can get home and be home when they get home.  Total benefit of my job!  The first school bus ride didn't go as planned and has probably scarred them for life.  They have to transfer buses at a school to get to their school and I made sure the bus driver knew that when they got on, however, somehow they got left behind and they were scared.  It all worked itself out and they got to school.  I say it's a resilience test and made them get back on the bus and there were lots of tears and not wanting too.  But now, a month in, and things are going good. 

They are hitting the reading hard and have to read every night, which we have to separate them because whoever reads first the second one listens and remembers.  I guess this is another challenge of twins. 

Here are pictures of our first day of KG and then Eli's first day back to "school" when I returned to work and the girls at the bus stop.  We walked up with them the first few days.  I'm pretty sure Eli thought he was going and insisted he take his back pack too. 

 

 

 

 

 

Big Boy Bed

I feel like I had done everything I could to keep this boy corralled, but he just wouldn't stay in his crib.  I was hesitant to move him to his bed but when he climbed out of his crib the whole frame would go forward and then swing back and hit the wall.  I was afraid the whole thing would fall on him, so safety won.  Here is a video of him while I was setting it up.  he was pretty excited.  He helped tear down his crib and helped me make his new bed.  This kid was SUPER happy and I talked about how he needs to stay in bed when bedtime and if it's dark when he wakes up to go back to bed.  I sneaky suspicion about how this would go, I flipped his door handle. 

 

So ever since he's been in his bed, we have had early morning wake-ups, fighting going to bed for naps and night, screaming, crying, hoarse voice, lighted alarm clocks, sticker charts, unscrewing light bulbs and giving up.  It is not going well.  Today he woke up at 5;15am.  Mom and Dad are TIRED!  We have a stop light alarm clock and it lights up red until the 'alarm' goes off or the light turns green.  I have the clock set for 6:30am because I need him in his room until then so I can get ready for work.  Our saying-Red, Red stay in bed.  He chooses to ignore this currently.  I made a sticker chart and if he stayed in bed until the light turns green 6 days he'd get a new lunch bag.  He did, got his lunch bag and then hasn't done it since.  He even tells us "No" when we say go back to his bed.  He now gets locked in his room if he doesn't stay in.  I am pretty matter of fact of about and don't want conversation and Joey is a push-over and coddles him :) I unscrew his lightbulbs now cause he can reach the light switch and lock his door.  While throwing his fits, he climbs on his dresssers, dumps his laundry basket, takes of his diapers and is just a RIP.  He has peed on the floor because he has taken off his diaper and falls asleep right behind the door. At night, we would unlock the door in case he needed something, but he started going over to his sisters room and waking them both up. Eventually he will figure it out, but I guess we will be tired until then.  And that marks the end to another stage in our lives--NO MORE CRIBS in the house.