First Day of School - Round 1!

Elias and Yasmin started 1st and 3rd grades at Bamber Valley Elementary on September 2.

There's an interesting tradition continuing again this year at the bus stop across the street from our house. The kids wait in the driveway of the neighbor's house for the bus (#14 Dolphin) and while they wait, they line up their backpacks to save their place in line to board the bus. Its always a funny sight to see the kids milling around and the backpacks all in an orderly queue for the bus!

The whistle has been passed this year from Elias to Kia to continue the other tradition that when the bus is in sight of the Hubert driveway, Kia is now the one to blow the whistle to send all the kids scurrying back to their lined-up backpacks.

Elias came home from school the first day with his pencil box filled with all the wonderful rocks collected from school that day. And he hasn't let many days go by since without leaves, rocks, bottlecaps or some other treasure coming home in the backpack.