Back to School!

Payton is now a 1st grader! He has been in school now for just about 2 full weeks and says that he loves 1st grade! He has some of his same friends in his class from last year. I thought that he would have some back to school nerves, but nope, he was ready to go! He said his favorite subject is math, which is no surprise to us because his brain seems to work in numbers! He even learned how to do multiplication over the summer and has started doing some simple division. This year after school we are sending him to an after school program at the school through the YMCA instead of having him go to the daycare that Easton goes to. (Payton will continue to go there over holidays and breaks, etc). This means at night I have to pick up kiddos in two locations. It has been a bit chaotic getting to two places, but I am sure we will get into a groove soon. Payton likes the after school program, but it has taken some getting used to from Easton. He is used to seeing Payton at his school everyday, so in the evenings when he gets in the van, he always says, "where P go?"
Even though we are having summer temps, with school back in session and school activities, it seems like summer is over this year. (But that means football starts next weekend!) Also, our pools all closed early around here last week for the season because of some virus that is going around. That is a big time bummer for us. The boys are both fish! They just love the water! Payton continues to go to swimming once a week and I think we will let him keep going for as long as he wants. It is one sport that he really loves to do and he is pretty good at it.
Easton is really starting to communicate like a mini person now! His new phrase is, "what you doin' mommy?" or "I comin" He really likes singing the songs that he learns at school and following Payton around. One funny thing about Easton is when he is mad, instead of throwing a tantrum, he just sits down and stares you down. Like if we are coming in from outside and he wants to stay outside. He will just sit in the ground right where he is and glare at us! Or, if he is in time out and you tell him to say he is sorry for whatever he did, he will sit there for ever and refuse to say it and just glare at us! It is actually pretty funny. We have to watch ourselves from laughing when he is being disciplined for something. He is a silly boy!
I finally scanned in Eastons 2 year pictures from June, so I uploaded them, and I also added a few more pictures to the Summer of 2011 part 2 album.