McIver's Morning Routine

McIver - not so into the morning routine, or the taking pictures of the morning routine.  Mr. Grouchy was EXHAUSTED after a day and a half of school, PLUS a birthday party at Leapin' Lizards on Thursday afternoon.  He was not so easy to wake up on Friday morning.  Here's McIver's morning routine...

Eat Breakfast (after this shot, I left him alone to eat while I cleaned up the kitchen)

Now, THIS is more like it - Eat Breakfast

Brush Teeth (The rest of these pictures were taken by Olivia.)

Brush Hair

Get Dressed

Help Make the Bed (keep in mind, this is from Olivia's vantage point - maybe we need to work on centering the shot)

After the morning routine is complete, there's time to play.

We had a great ride to school on Friday morning.  We were stopped by the train on the very first day of school (we had left early so we weren't late).  Then on Thursday morning, we thought we were getting pulled over  for speeding (which we weren't).  The Sheriff pulled over the three cars in front of us and I thought she was waving for me to pull over, too.  There wasn't anymore room, so I pulled to the front of the three cars.  She walked up to us, as my heart raced, and told me that she didn't mean for me to stop and that we could go on our merry way.  

So, on Friday morning, McIver started saying that he wondered what would happen on the way to school that day.  It started a whole funny story that we each took turns adding onto.

McIver: What if we got a flat tire on our way to school today?

Olivia:  And, then the tow truck had to take us to school.

McIver:  But the tow truck ran out of gas.

Me:  So we took a helicopter to school.

McIver:  But the helicopter started to crash.

Olivia:  So we parachuted out of it.

McIver:  And, we landed in the swampy swamp on the way to school.

Me:  When we got out, we were covered in yucky green slime.

Olivia:  And the guard wouldn't let us in the gate because she didn't recognize us.

McIver:  So we shook our bodies like Murphy when he gets out of the lake. And then the guard was covered in slime, too.

We were all laughing and giggling and just having the best time.  It was a great start to a Friday school day!