Back to School...

Look at the smiles on those faces.....  If only that would last all year!  I came home from a run and we usually get the kids up at 7:00 to get ready.  It was 7:07 and Ethan was upstairs, eating breakfast, clothes on, backpack firmly attached and buckled on, and ready to go.  Eva is excited to go back, too.  She had accessorized, had her 50 lb backpack all ready, and magnets and stuff for her new locker. They got to meet their teachers at Back to School night the week before and they were ready.

School shopping on the other hand is about 75% done.  I fear buying pants for Ethan  and this is why:

These are Ethan's pants from school last year.  He has a favorite soccer move - the slide tackle - that he does whenever he gets the chance.  Everyday I'd pick him up from school and he'd have a new pair of pants with big holes ripped in the knees and grass stains all over them along with a guilty face, knowing he was going to have to deal with mom.   2 months into the school year, almost every pair we had bought looked like this.  What do you do?  He's a boy.  That's what boys do, according to his father.   

This pair of pants is quite extraordinary.  They were a little long on him so I rolled the cuffs up.  They were brand spankin' new to replace one of the torn knee pants we had bought a month earlier.  The first day...FIRST DAY...the damage had been done.  It was rainy and when his cuffs rolled down, he just kept-a-walkin and sheared away an inch of the hem.  Do they make disposable khaki pants out there?  Ya know, to last a day or so and then throw them away?  I'm gonna google it.