The Trifecta!

Jaecy by her cubby hole in her classroom

Jaecy with her pink backpack
Jaecy with her name tag, all ready to learn!

No tears, no clinging to the leg. Jaecy's first day of preschool was one that she's looked forward to for a long time. Mommy helped Jaecy put her backpack away, then Jaecy simply said, "You can go now!" With that, the Nelson family experienced another first: The first day when all three kids went to school!

As you will see by the pictures, Jaecy has a light cast on her right hand. She was at Grandma's house and fell while playing with cousins Kale and Nate. The cast is a preventative measure more than anything and should be on for about two weeks. We take it off before she goes to bed and when she takes her baths.

Update!!

Maverik in his classroom

Maverik puts his bookbag away

Maverik at home! He's getting so big! (I may be biased, but he's one good looking guy!)

Today is the rare day when there's not a ton of new stuff going on, so it's just an update day. Nothing wrong with an update day!

• Kari's Golf season will be winding down in the next few weeks.
  
• I'm starting our preseason strength program for the basketball team.


• Maverik is off and running at school!


• Jaecy will have her first official day at preschool this week!


• Jayden stayed home Friday with the sniffles, he and Mav are fighting a cold.


• We are celebrating Grandpa Merel's birthday today!
  

It's very unusual for the Nelson family to actually look forward to a new season on television, but we've grown fond of the TV shows Friday Night Lights and Heroes. We're up to date with what happened last season and are ready to go!

The Beginning of Things to Come

I was about to begin this blog with a "First Day of School" title, but then I began to realize that this day was just the beginning of lots of "firsts". My buddy Jerry Bechtold always called a high school student's senior year their "season of lasts" so I would say that for the Nelson family this is the beginning of our "season's of firsts." Jayden was picked up for the bus for school for the first time, and Mom was there to catch it on film. I'm also going to try and include footage of Jayden sitting up on the new carpeting to catch a glimpse of one of his favorite shows. (DORA!!!)

Jayden Sitting Up Like a Pro (And Doing Something Funny With His Tongue)

Jayden Getting On The School Bus For The First Time!

In other good news, I have almost made it through the first week of school alive and well! The boys are about to kick off their first football game of the season this Friday against Lew Wallace.

Summer Ends

Well, tomorrow it's back to work for me with an all day meeting at Calumet High School. Maverik and Jayden both start this week, and Jaecy will start her pre-school program early in September.

For teacher's this next week is almost like New Year's Eve. As a teacher walking into a new school year, I always make resolutions to try things different or avoid past mistakes. This year I am using the beginning of the school year to lose some weight. I've actually started another blog on the issue, I've labeled it THE MISSION and have it linked on the right side of the page. Hopefully the blog will be a positive reinforcement towards losing some weight. I start officially tomorrow, although I've been tracking things since last Monday.

It's amazing how quickly things change. In the last week Jayden has really taken off with sitting up and getting on his hands and knees and rocking, almost like he's thinking about crawling. These are things that he's worked on during his therapy for quite some time now, so to see even the little break trough's is very exciting!

Kari and I have been following the Cubs, the Olympics, and the Big Brother live reality show. It really sounds worse than it is, we're not really couch potatoes but once we get caught up in something we're hooked!

Recommendation of the week: I just saw the movie Deja Vu with Denzel Washington. It started off a little ENEMY OF THE STATE'ish, but it really picked up half way through and really surprised me with how caught up in it I was.

As I type this Maverik is laying next to me reading about 50% of what type. He's a pretty slick whistle! More news to come as I hear what's going on at Calumet tomorrow.