School Days

So here we are.....beginning a new school year. 7th grade, 4th grade, and preppy-K. I am amazed at how smooth the transition was. It may be due to the fact that the kids had a day-and-a-half of school before a 3-day weekend. I propose that every school week be like that.
Bryson was fixated on wearing his new fashionable skinny jeans to school everyday with the new jacket. Hello? It was over 90 degrees last week. Cayden is still waiting to do his school clothes shopping, but he's cake....I just pick something off the rack and ask, "How about this?" and he says "OK."
Rylan has picture day today. He's been practicing his smile. He calls it "crazy eyes" to which they are....and that famous "Shrek smile". It's partly my fault because we love to share "crazy eyes" from across the table at dinner and laugh, but I am praying that the highly-trained picture people at Life-Touch can coax him out of using his signature smile and just settle for a nice one. If not, maybe they can just re-touch his whole face.