Well, we are home - it feels like forever that we have been back in our normal routine and, um, its not quite normal yet... but we are on the way to getting that way.
We arrived from Alaska on Tuesday night around 11pm or so.... I think it was close to 1am before I actually fell asleep.
Alaska was awesome, by the way, I'll write an update about that in a bit but more importantly... i thought I'd write a little about Javan's first day at school.
So, i we didn't get to sleep until LATE Tuesday night and Wednesday morning I was up at 6 or so anxious and excited to see my little love. Wow did i ever miss Javan's little hugs and snuggles.
Javan spent the night at Shane and Shana's on Tuesday night so I headed on over there at about 6:30am and he was still sleeping. Oh it felt so nice when he woke up and crawled into my lap and snuggled for a while. :-)
Shana made some pancakes so he had a nice breakfast for his first day of school

Thanks Aunt Shana!!!



We took a couple of pictures at Shana's house before we headed to school

This is Javan getting a little nervous as we walked in the front doors.

Ok, mom.. enough pictures! haha. He's got his nametag on and ready to go.

I got out his box of crayons and told him to find a seat. He chose the empty table (no coloring sheets) all by himself. I encouraged him to move to a table that has some other kids at it and coloring sheets. He said he "just wanted to sit by himself". Well, with a little prodding I finally got him to sit with the other kids.. he was less than pleased and still VERY nervous.

When I picked him up, it sounded like he had a great day. His teacher said he did really "AWESOME". I'm not sure if she says that to every mom but she was pretty enthusiastic and believable that he really did impress her. Of course, I think he's an amazing child and would impress anyone who meets him ;-) He told me he had fun at the playground but I didn't get much more out of him. He didn't talk about any friends he made or anything but that's typical Javan... it was tough getting anything out of him about preschool too.

Today when I picked him up, he said "mom, can we go to the playground one day when my friend Luigi is there?" I said "Sure, how exciting you met a friend." and he said "Yeah, Luigi has been my friend since kindergarten round up" (kindergarten round up was on Monday, by the way) I guess Luigi didn't come to mind all the other times that I asked him if he made any friends. haha. I'm happy he's having a good time in Kindergarten.

When we got home today, the mailman delivered a belated birthday present from Aunt Kimi, Uncle JR, Ryan, Jeremiah, and Nathan.

What a fun day!!!