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Tomorrow we start week two of the school year and after last week’s easy going schedule, we might be ready to crank it up a notch or two.

The truth is, last week when we got to Day 1 of the school year, my head wasn’t really in the game. I knew it was the first day and I knew we were going to get things done, but I didn’t really have a clear picture of how the whole “cyber learning” worked. Other factors were the messy school room, excitement over my dad’s upcoming visit, and Tebow getting sick on Sunday.

Messy evidence.
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In about 20 (30 if I’m lucky) the boys will be awake. Tebow will be signing “more” for some type of food or drink and Fuller will probably be draped over the couch insisting that he doesn’t need more sleep (while simultaneously telling me he is still tired).

While it may seem like a typical morning, it really isn’t typical, because we start school this morning!

I don’t know if it has been mentioned on the blog, but when we moved, we didn’t just move houses. We moved across state lines, becoming Georgia residents. It isn’t that big of a deal since the Georgia line was about five minutes from our old house, but as we are finding out, there are differences in moving to the Peach State. And one of those is school.

Georgia offers a school at home option that allows parents who want to school their children at home to do so for free.* The state relies on the popular and well established home school curriculum of K12, which was delivered to our home in three big boxes during our July vacation.

I’ll probably explain more later, but today is the official start of the school year! Fuller begins kindergarten!

Let the wild rumpus start…

*Free means we still pay for it with tax dollars, and anything we want to supplement (like art and music) we have to pay for ourselves. The core stuff is provided by the state.

When we were pregnant with Tebow, I agonized over how exactly to explain to Fuller we were going to be adding a new person to the family. I really couldn’t tell how he would react and it worried me to some hormone-driven degree. In the end it worked out ok, and it has been 14 months since Tebow arrived and Fuller is just NOW realizing how intrusive the new family member can be.

With all the agonizing I did, I’m actually kind of surprised at how nonchalant I was about telling Fuller we decided to sell our house and move to a new one. Maybe it was because I have moved houses nine times in my life (not including all the moving I did in college- from the dorms to the apartments then back to the dorms then back to the apartments) and it seems like it should be no big deal. Or maybe it was because I let Damon tell Fuller.
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Before our trip to Ohio, my mom asked if Fuller and I would like to go see Annie at the Schuster Theater in Dayton. I knew I wanted to (I think I jumped up and down while squealing like a little girl). I asked Fuller if he wanted to, and after a little explanation, he said he would LOVE to see Annie (seriously).

The three of us went last Saturday and it was such a fun experience. I had only ever seen the movie Annie, but I knew the songs was looking forward to sharing the magic with Fuller.

(video warning: Fuller gets a bit loud around 3:14.)

Fuller Vlogs :: Annie from mrscrumley on Vimeo.

FTC Disclosure: my mom bought the tickets and Fuller was bribed with a movie in order to appear on camera.

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At the beginning of the month, Fuller reorganized his magnets on the magnetic calendar to represent the month of November. Afterwards we added special magnets for trips, holidays, and doctor appointments.

One of the magnets is for “haircut” and I use this as a tool to help Fuller accept the fact that he must get his hair cut. I allow him to pick a date (I gave him three options) to put the haircut magnet on the calendar. He picked today.

Even with the ownership and knowing it’s coming, we still have a hard time getting Fuller to submit to the inevitable. He is going to get a haircut.

This morning, Damon remembered his childhood Sesame Street favorite had a segment dealing specifically with haircuts. So, we pulled up youtube and found it:

Fuller immediately saw the correlation between the redheaded muppet and himself. Now when I pull out the clippers, I just have to remind Fuller that running through doors hurts, hair cuts do not.

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