First Day of School - 1st Grade

Today Samantha started school ~ it was her first day of 1st Grade!!!  Wow, I cannot believe my baby girl is a big first grader already!  It really seems just like yesterday that Dale and I boarded a plane bound for China to meet our first child.  Where has the time gone?

In any event, on Monday evening at bedtime, Sammie was pretty nervous; she said her tummy hurt.  I explained to her that was normal and she would be fine.  Well low and behold, come Tuesday morning when her alary went off and I went in to turn it off, she bolted up in bed and said "I'm gonna get dressed now".  I told her to go out in the living room and wake up a bit.  She ate breakfast, brushed her teeth and got dressed all in under an hour and had her coat and back pack on by 7:00 a.m. (we didn't have to leave for school until 7:45 a.m.)  She was bouncing off the walls with excitment and kept asking me if it was time to leave yet.

I did manage to take a couple of pictures of her at home (see below) and was going to take the camera to school, but had forgotten it as we were leaving and then she said she really didn't want me to take pictures at school and said and I quote "You know, dad can't take pictures of me when I go off to college".  She's really too funny!  Thus, no actual pictures of her in school, but she had a wonderful first day of First Grade!