All set for school

It’s official, our little guy will start Kindergarten next week!  I can’t believe that it’s already time for him to start school.  These last five years have really flown by.  It seems like just yesterday that Thaddeus arrived into this world and now he’s going to start school.

It’s been a little bit of an adventure getting to this point, well, getting him set up for school that is.  We got him “registered” back in May and then we had to wait until his 5-year checkup before we could get him fully enrolled because they needed all his shot records and a current checkup.  We got that taken care of at the beginning of the month and dropped off the paperwork to the administrative building.  A couple weeks later we got a call that they still didn’t have them and one of the forms still needed some information filled out on it.  Hubby went by the school two weeks ago (the week before he started working again) and tried to get the paperwork filled out but the school was all locked up.  I tried to stop by this past Friday since I was off work, and again the school was all locked up.  I called them this morning to ensure that everything was taken care of, except the contact paperwork and to ensure he was to start school because we hadn’t received anything from the school about when it starts, where his class is, etc.  Everything is taken care of now.  They faxed me the form that needed to be completed and I faxed it back, they have all his shot records and current checkup information and school starts the day after Labor Day.  The letter should be going out this week, yeah, cutting it a bit close, but it’s coming.

Our next mission is getting him set up for the Latch key program at the school so that I don’t have to drop down to part-time in order to make sure he can get to school on time and picked up right after school.  I’ll leave that for another post .

For the next week, Thaddeus will be here at work with me so that we don’t have to find a sitter just for the week.  It’s nice having him around but at the same time it can be a pain because he loves all the attention and well, I just can’t give it to him 100% of the time while at work.  We forgot to bring a movie for him to watch today, so he’s having a hard time having enough to do even though he has a bucket-o-soldiers, several dinosaurs, cars, coloring books and crayons, and more to play with here.

I hope this isn’t a vision of what it’ll be like for him in school, bored of having to sit there and listen all day .  That is my biggest fear right now with him starting school.  He’s already very smart and I’m just afraid that he’ll get bored with learning things he already knows.  Guess we’ll have to wait and see.