3rd grade!

Today was Libby's first day of 3rd grade! Wow, I have a 3rd grader!! We met her teacher on Friday and her teacher is WONDERFUL!! You can already tell she really enjoys teaching and she really cares about her students. This is going to be a much better year for Libby - especially since her 2nd grade teacher couldn't even bring herself to sign Libby's yearbook at the end of last year even though Libby asked her every single day for 2 weeks if she would sign her yearbook.

This year our county implemented a school uniform dress code so now the students can only wear solid colored collared shirts and blouses and solid colored shorts, skorts, dresses, or pants. Libby was NOT happy at the end of last school year when it was announced that they would be wearing school uniforms this year. She has been mad about it all summer. This morning I laid her uniform out on the chair in her room and I woke her up. She opened her eyes, looked around for a minute, and then saw her uniform on the chair. The first words out of her mouth were, "Mommy, I hope there is a riot today over those stupid uniforms!" I couldn't help but laugh. I told her she just needed to make sure that SHE wasn't the one starting the riot!! :-)

I picked her up this afternoon and she was full of stories about her day. I asked her to rate her day on a scale from 1 to 10 and she enthusiastically said, "10!!" I'm sooooo happy that she is already much happier than she was on any given day last year with her 2nd grade teacher. Yay for great teachers!!!!! :-)

Here is the picture that shows how Libby feels about wearing uniforms:

Here is the picture when I told her I was actually sharing these pictures with people:

Here she is ready to head out to 3rd grade:

And here she is at her desk in her classroom: