The day finally arrived. We had to put Abby onto the school bus for the first time ever. They took her away from us at 7:10 this morning and we had no idea if she ever made it to school until 2:40 this afternoon when she hopped off. It was tough to see her go and I could tell she was starting to well up with tears as the bus doors closed, but when she got off the bus in the afternoon, we knew everything had gone okay. She said she had no trouble getting off the bus and walking to her new class. She also told us she sang songs and ate in a cafeteria, a new experience for her. She’s looking forward to tomorrow and I know Jennifer and I will feel better since she’s already gone through it once.

Tonight we went to Abby’s new Elementary school to meet her Kindergarten teacher. She seems really nice and well suited to teach Kindergarten. Her presentation was all over the place and she was easily distracted by other topics that came up. She seems to love her job, getting excited at just the thought of seeing our children reading to the class. My first impression of the school: big. Abby is going to be expected to get off the bus and walk all the way across the campus to her room all on her own. There will be people to help the kids the first couple of weeks. However, Jennifer and I are still scared to death that she’s going to get lost and break down into a puddle of tears. Tomorrow, we head out with Abby to her class room. We are also thinking of taking her up this weekend and letting her walk from where the bus is going to drop her off to her class room.

We rose early and were up and out of the hotel by 7:00 a.m. another full day of driving to my parents’ house in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was pretty uneventful. There was a lot of traffic on I-10 from Mobile, Alabama until Lafayette, Louisiana, where we cut off on I-49. There looked like there was a ton of traffic heading down I-10 towards New Orleans.

Once we got to Nana & Poppy’s house, no one was home, but they had left us a way to get in and within a few minutes, Poppy was home. He entertained the girls and we learned that Abby can hit a baseball.

Today’s video is from Abby’s graduation where she performs “America the Beautiful”.