Happy New Year! Kell is a School Boy

We spent New Years Eve at a big party in the home of close friends with lots of other families.  It amazes me that after being home for such a short time, Kell loves the party scene.  Lots of people around and kids to run around with.  He very often checks in with his mommy but then right back to it.  He's just simply a people person!  Anyway, he stayed up to ring in 2012 and loved, loved the fireworks!  I understand that fireworks are used often in China so I'm sure that somehow all the "boom boom booming" was a little comforting to him.   His eyes lit up...the way they do when he gets some "real" Chinese food (which cannot be made at home as hard as I try!).

On New Years Day we went to watch the Atlanta Falcons play football at the Georgia Dome.  When we told him the plan he started moving his hands like he was playing a video game!  He's been watching his brothers play the new football video game they got for Christmas,,,boy was he in for a surprise!

Kell started school and is in first grade.  He was so excited and ready to start school!  He brought me his lunchbox 2 days before school started and wanted to pack his lunch. I was able to hold him off until the next day but we had to pack lunch first thing the next morning.  He was showered and ready for bed all on his own by 4:30 the day before school started.  He woke up beaming and ready to go!  Power breakfast: bacon and noodles!

The first day had a few rough spots but he made it through.  Once he saw that Mommy always comes back, he's been excited to go every day.  Kell loves his teachers.  They are patient and kind and show him so much grace...and some days that's really needed!  He has so much fun at school that when he gets in the car in the afternoons he is talking so fast trying to tell me about it that his mouth can't keep up with his brain! I'm just so happy he's happy!