What a gorgeous bunch! How thrilled you must be with those beauties, and how fun it will be watching them take their true form. The first one is hands down my favorite, but I really like Asian Fairy Bluebird X seedling as well. Julie

I spelled his name wrong in the first post. It's Nicolas. No h. This is our 2nd. Nicolas has a big sister, 'Becca who was 6 in March and started first grade last week. Ron

I'm not sure it was my first day of school but it was definitely one of the first days of kindergarten. My cousin has just moved to my town and we were fast friends. We ruled the kindergarten classroom because we were the only ones that knew someone. Our mom's had to have the teachers put us in different classrooms after kindergarten because we wouldn't let anyone else play with us and we were very bossy. I'm not sure my mom did the right thing on that one. Both of us were very shy after that and didn't make friends easily until much later in school. My DH remembers his first days vividly. His mom walked him and his twin brother to school and they both followed her back home. They didn't want to stay there. This went on for several days and she'd walk them both back to school only to get home and find them back at home. Finally one day when they showed up yet again at home, she put them outside (it was a cold day) and wouldn't let them back in. They finally got cold and walked to school and stayed the rest of the time. I think that is the funniest thing ever. I can just imagine getting home after taking the little rascals to school only to find that they'd beat her home. Today they'd probably call social services or something.

When my kids were in school the only "chaos" was transporting them at different times and often to different schools. In preschool it was mornings for one and afternoons for the other. In high school it was two different high schools. I literally pushed my kids into getting their drivers licenses early so I could get a break. Other than that I don't see much difference. Parenting is parenting and school doesn't change that. Elementary school was easy because everyone went to the neighborhood school and our block carpooled. Ah those easy days when kids didn't have to be in car seats until five or 6 and booster until 11 or even 12 in some cases. I don't know how parents do it these days. It must take a whole convoy of cars to transport a brownie troop. Grand daughter is going to kindergarten this year. DD has been taking her by the school about once a month since the end of last school year. Last week she wanted to show her other grandma her new school. She led her all over the place pointing out the office, the library, the auditorium/cafeteria the big kids wing and playground (she's mad she has to stay in the "baby" one) and the K classroom area. She'll only be there for 3 hours but she knows more about the campus than I did in the 2nd or 3rd grade. She happened to see that the K rooms had people in them and ran up and knocked on the door. She'd only met 2 out of 4 of her possible teachers. She knocked and when the door opened she introduced herself as a new student and told the teacher who answered she wanted to let her know who she was in case she ended up in her class. LOL We grandmas and mom are having a long beach day the day before school starts. Daddy may join us after work. We will have dinner there. Kids will be tuckered out by the time we get home. Maybe passed out in their car seats. May not even get a bath much less be laying out clothes. She'll wear what she wants, just as shes been doing for the last 2.5 years.