first tears

This morning we had our first tears... I'd been waiting for it, but to tell you the truth it caught me off gaurd.  It wasn't who I expected them to come from.  I was telling the boys to get their shoes & backpacks on to wait for the bus & out bursted the tears from Evan!  He normally doesn't act like this, but over the past few days I could tell he has acted tired & he seems as if he's thinking about some stuff, but I could never get anything out of him.  But this morning the tears ran & I was informed how stupid school was & that he didn't have to go....... oh my.  I talked with him calmly & gave him lots of hugs & kisses & reassured him it would be ok & then he was suddenly done & ready to go.  Thank goodness!  We've had troubles in the past when Collin was in the earlier grades getting him off to school & I've made a few trips to take him to school because he wouldn't get on the bus.  Please, Lord I don't need that again!  Hopefully it will get better.  I think he is just on overload right now, being busy all day with school, then they get off the bus & I drag them off to get Lydia from the babysitter, etc etc.  He also has mostly all new kids in his class.  Our school has 2 different Kindergarten classes, one in West Point, one in Fort Madison.  This year they merged them into 1 first grade, with 2 teachers.  In his class he only has him & maybe 3 others that were with him last year, so I think he may be having a harder time with that.  He's a very likable kind of guy, though, so I told him I'm sure he'll make more friends over the next few weeks.  I think he also misses Collin {gasp!}.  Collin, being in the 4th grade, is in a different building, has a different lunch & recess time.  So he really only sees him on the bus in the am & pm.  Hopefully with some sleep, some pep talks & hopefully some more exciting stuff at school, we'll all be ok.  Oh & I have to add this, I thought it was pretty funny.  Evan has been waiting for when he would have homework {I know, it won't last}.  Last night, he had his first spelling list to study.  He had 10 words.  So first, I let him write them out while looking at the list.  OMG, there was alot of erasing & perfecting.  I think it took 20 minutes for this part.  So then, I told him I was going to ask him the words & he'd have to write them w/ out looking at the list, but foreseeing that this could take another 20 minutes, he instead spelled them out loud.  Good job Evan.... you got 100%.