Preparing for Kindergarten

The Friday evening before school started, I took Pepper out for a little shopping and a special treat. I wanted to spend a little one on one time with her before the school year began and life got even crazier. 

Of course we had to take a selfie of our girl's night out.

This girl makes me crazy but she is tons of fun and I am so grateful to be her mother!
She is going to rock kindergarten!

On Monday afternoon, August 25th, Pepper had her kindergarten orientation. She was very excited to see her classroom and meet her new teacher, Mr. Clifford. It was also fun to see the brand new school building. Oh, and yes, her teacher was confused by her name and thought Davis was Pepper's last name. She set him straight.

Classic Pepper face showing off her new locker.

As per tradition, Pepper received a new L.L. Bean backpack courtesy of Gramma and Papa Goodier. She was a little jazzed to open up her new bag.

I think she saw this pose on a TV show and kept doing it. 

She also got the matching lunchbox.
She's a very lucky girl!

And this is the posture I got when I told her to stop doing the other pose. Lovely!

Some other big girl in her big girl panties wants to go to school.
She will have to wait a couple weeks but as long as potty training continues to go well, she will be all set.

In preparation for her big first day of school I did Pepper's nails with some new Jamberry nail sticker things. It was a bit of a process but they turned out very cute and she loved them.

Too bad Pepper is a picker and has zero patience. She had them all picked off by that night. Oh, well!

As a final celebration of summer, Wednesday night the 27th, we took the kids to Copley Community Park and let them play and have pizza before it was time to go to gymnastics. Cody got off a little early so he could join us.

We are very ready for school to start but it will be a little sad to say good-bye to the lazy summer schedule...just a little.