Big Man on Campus and Baking Brookelyn

Today was Braedyn's 1st day of school! He is going to First at Firewheel, the same church school that Brookelyn attended this summer (Brookelyn is going back to the school she attended last fall). Braedyn will be going every Tuesday and we are wait-listed for Thursday.

This morning we started with a good hearty breakfast, pancake on a stick:


And then headed outside to load up the car! Here is Braedyn carrying his nap-mat to the car:

I tried to get a picture of him carrying his backpack, but it was just to big and heavy, and Brookelyn got him interested in tormenting a poor cricket, so this is the best I could do:

And here he is just looking cute!

Brookelyn and I took him to his classroom and handed him off; she told him, "It's okay Braedyn, be a big boy and have a good day!" It was so sweet! He cried, but my friend whose son is in the same class texted me not even 2 minutes later to say that when she dropped off her son, Braedyn was happily playing.

Brookelyn and I headed off to Target to get groceries and most importantly cupcake mix to have some mother-daughter time. Here she is mixing up the batter:

We had a great time together, and ate way too many cupcakes before heading back out to pick up lil' bro. Braedyn came right to me smiling when we went to pick him up. Both of his teachers said he was great, conked out for an hour on his nap mat, ate all his lunch, and only cried when they had to go inside from the playground.

All in all it was an amazing day!