"school" pictures

we took some time out of our day a couple of weeks ago to take year pictures of the kids. 

I'm still filtering through some of them and touching up the shadows and bright spots on a few of them.  in the mean time I do have some ready for showing. 

we might need one more photo shoot before it gets just too cold to go out for more pictures.  and then sometime soon Erica and I will be finding someplace perfect for Senior pictures

he's gotten so big?

remember me mentioning how tiny Ronan seemed on that first day of school.
this picture should help you better understand.

Ronan walking to the bus with Timothy.  He looks so small with that huge back pack and that giant brother

Ronan and Emma climbing off the bus.

Emma, Connor, and Ronan outside of their school on the first day

He was getting so bored waiting.  on the first day they stand inside the doors and wait for the entire class to make it to school.  it took some of the kids a really long time to make it to school.  those kids didn't look too sad to be at school so maybe it was the parents having a hard time letting go.  

in his classroom.  he really didn't want me to interrupt him and he was anxious to get back to settling in to his classroom.

first day, very first day and third day

I'll have more pictures (perhaps tomorrow) but I just wanted to share with you family and friends my beautiful kids on their first day of school.

okay so it wasn't Erica and Timothy's first day, it was their third.  but it was the first day for Emma and Connor and Ronan.  but more than just that, it was Ronan's very very first day of school.
when he is sleeping he looks so big but as soon as he wakes up and stands he looks so tiny.  now we add a gigantic back pack to him and he's really tiny.
but he wasn't the littlest kid (though maybe one of the very few youngest) child in kindergarten this year.
He has been so excited and didn't get sad at all.  when he got home, with all the enthusiasm he could muster, he told us "IT WAS SO FUN!"  I'm so glad about that, but still a bit sad, probably because it was so easy for him.  he's such a big kid.