FOUR out the door...

Back to School this year is wild for the Zoo Crew...when school kicks into full swing, there will be no beasties left behind. No more pre-schoolers in this household!!

Off to school this week:

• Katie--9th grade (yes, that's high school!!)
  
• Matthew--4th grade
• Ben--2nd grade
• and Abbey--kindergarten (YIKES!)
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Abbey was very enthusiastic 'til it was her turn to board the bus today. Her older sibs offered up lots of advice, here are a few of the better tidbits...

• Katie: "Abbey, when you have to choose between a pink crayon and a purple one, don't. Go with both!"
• Ben: "Sometimes you get to make friends and sometimes you get to be one. I say you should be one first." (pretty profound huh?)
• Matthew: "If you listen to your teacher, you can't go wrong."
• Ben: "Abbey, school isn't always fun, but, well, you gotta go or you get in trouble."
• Matthew: "Sometimes you get to do all kinds of fun projects...relax and enjoy the kindergarten ones when you don't have to write about it."
• Katie: "You know, Abbey, some of my friends & I have been in class together since kindergarten. Get to know your peeps, kid."
  

Patrick starts back to school next week.

I miss 'em already. (If you didn't click the link above, click here for pictures!)