Peyton's 1st Day of Kindergarten

Today was Peyton's 1st Day of Kindergarten. She has been so excited to go to Kindergarten and to ride the bus. She has been on the count down of days since last week and since this morning was on the countdown of hours.

A couple stressing but now we can say funny things happened today. First of all, Peyton got to bed a little later than we had intended last night so I told her that she would need to sleep in this morning so that she was rested for school. Well Houston had other plans as far as sleeping in and was awake at 6:45 a.m. He woke Peyton up with his jabbering so she came and crawled in bed with me. The later it got this morning the noisier it got and she started to get frustrated saying "Hooston (as she prounces his name), be quiet. I am trying to get rested for school".

After we got all ready we proceeded to take the traditional "1st Day of School" pictures on the front porch. But we immediately became startled by a baby snake believed to be dead as it did not move after multiple attempts from us throwing sticks and rocks at it.


After we realized the snake was not going to eat us we continued on with the photo shoot.






After the front porch pictures, Houston and I walked Peyton to her bus stop. Where we waited and waited and waited until finally I decided when it was 3 minutes to when school was supposed to start that I better just run her to school myself.






While driving Peyton to school I noticed an Alpine School District bus pulling out of the subdivision across the highway. I stopped to find out if it was her bus. The bus contained an old man that indeed was her bus driver but not another soul. He was lost holding a map asking me for directions but did ensure me that he would do better tomorrow. Yeah, that made me feel better. He also told me that Peyton could hop on the bus and he would take her to school after he went to all the bus stops. I felt it was a better idea to take her myself. So she only ended up being 10 minutes late for her 1st day, but here she is in class finally.


After I dropped her off to school and was on my way home I noticed an Alpine School District bus driving slowly along the highway. I looked and it was her bus driver holding his map across the steering wheel reading it and there was still not another soul on the bus. Thank goodness somebody from the school told me she would have a different bus driver coming home. Phew!!! At least I thought. Houston and I walked down to the bus stop to meet Peyton and just as we got there a bus went by and turned to go out on the highway. I just assumed it wasn't her bus until it stopped for a couple minutes and then proceeded to do a U-turn, came back to the bus stop, and there was my little Peyton standing in the door.


Not sure if the bus driver didn't know to drop her off or if Peyton forgot to get off when the bus may have stopped there the 1st time before me and Houston got there which means the bus was early. She now tells me that she forgot to get off the bus. But anyways she is home and she had a fun 1st Day of Kindergarten. Let's hope for a smoother day tomorrow especially since my sitter's carpool will take her to school and I will just need to worry about her taking the bus home.

So there you have it. Our story of the 1st Day of Kindergarten. I have heard others scary "1st Day" stories especially with the buses and never really believed it until now.