Today was a big day for Evan in more than one way! I'll get to that in a minute, but first I want to give you a little background info. When Evan finished preschool in April we started thinking about what school we'd send him to for kindergarten. It's something that's always been on our mind since we moved to the Shearwater Nest, but now it was actually something we had to really think about. When we built our house four years ago we were told that most of phase three where we built was Lansing School District. While it's E. Lansing address, it's Lansing schools and Lansing/ Bath Township taxes. The taxes part is nice because it's cheaper than E. Lansing taxes, but we moved out of Lansing to be in a better school district for Evan when the time came. We were told that more than likely by the time Evan started school it would all be E. Lansing schools. There's just four houses in phase three that are E. Lansing schools and then phase one and two are all E. Lansing schools. Well, four years later that's not the case which we knew was a possibility (one we were hoping not to have to deal with). Needless to say if we wanted Evan to go to E. Lansing schools we'd have to do schools of choice. So with that said come this past May we had to start applying to Schools of Choice. We knew we didn't want Evan to go to Lansing schools. The school that he would go to is Post Oak and it actually used to be a decent Lansing school, but has gone downhill some over the past few years. So we decided to apply to a few different districts in case Evan didn't get into E. Lansing. If you're not familiar with the schools of choice, it's all done on a lottery system. No matter when you turn your application in during the two week time frame it's just luck of the draw. We applied to DeWitt, Bath, Haslett, and East Lansing Schools. When we got back from Arizona we had letters in the mail that Evan was accepted to DeWitt and Bath schools. We knew right away that since he was accepted to Bath we'd go there before DeWitt so we turned down DeWitt. Then we heard from Haslett a few days after we got home from vacation. Now we were torn between Bath and Haslett. Bath is a little closer and full day kindergarten, and Haslett is half day and a little further away, but a better school district. East Lansing was a couple weeks behind the other districts notifying people so we didn't hear from them until the beginning of July. Unfortunately Evan didn't get in and of course it was our first choice. Last year there were 50+ openings for kindergarten in E. Lansing. This year there was like 35 openings and we were number 23 on the wait list. So it was back to deciding between Bath and Haslett. We know Evan's ready for a full day of kindergarten, but since Haslett's a better school we decided to go with Haslett over Bath. In the long run we figured if he didn't get into E. Lansing next year, we'd want him in Haslett for first grade.
Now that you've got the background about why Evan will be in Haslett Schools, yesterday was his open house for kindergarten. He'll be attending Wilkshire Elementary. We got the letter last week that he'll be in the "Bumblebee Room" and his teacher is Mrs. Mills. Evan was very excited about his open house last night and when we walked into his classroom he was beaming! "This classroom is so cool mom! Way better than my old classroom in preschool." Yeah, we were off to a good start! Then we met Mrs. Mills and Evan said he liked her. She had a scavenger hunt for the kids/parents to do so we went around doing that. We did things like find his locker, read a story about kindergarten, sign up to help with holiday parties, sign up for parent teacher conferences (which are in November, that was a little crazy. I don't know what I'm doing in November yet), tour the school, and the kids ended outside on the playground for popsicles. It was a fun night and Evan really liked his school and teacher. He even got homework already before school starts! Here's hoping his first day of school goes good leaving mommy. Here's a couple pictures of his classroom. They're not the best since there was a lot of people there, but you can see it for the most part.
After open house we met Greg's mom at Max & Erma's for dinner. She had watched Em for us while we went to open house. While we were at dinner Evan's loose tooth got REALLY loose. So loose that it was laying almost flat front to back. So with it sticking out he couldn't really eat so we said that's gotta come out. Greg pulled on it a little bit, but it wasn't coming out. He worked at it for just a couple minutes and then there it was... not in Evan's mouth anymore, but in Greg's hand. I was glad Greg did it because my stomach was a little queasy watching it. Evan was super excited and so proud. The waitresses were watching him and they brought him an envelope to take his tooth home in. It was a very exciting time for him. So now the tooth fairy will be visiting our house tonight for the first time! The debate is how much should she bring. Stay tuned.....
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