Keep Back 200 Feet

The morning bus stop is one interesting place.

All the school age children and their guardians emerge from their houses at the same time each morning to join the micro-community that is the bus stop. At the corner:

• the children circle each other for small talk or to see if someone has something 'new'
• there is one other parent and I who have a hot beverage in hand
• babies are in tow - always
• younger siblings run up and down the grassy hill to the neighbors tree. every. day.
• they are giddy with excitement to go to school
• there are crazy hugs and kisses when we hear the buses very loud brakes around the bend
• the children have to line up at 'the crack' (in the road) so they wait until the bus comes to a stop.
• lots of pictures are taken
• and Friday is Flamingo Friday, but maybe that's for a different blog post.

Why are lots of pictures taken? I guess because we have anywhere from 2 to 10 minutes together!

First Day of School at the Bus Stop

Circling Up 

Mr. R just so happened to have extra hair mascara in his pocket 

Crazy Hair Day 

Cillian's Ride in the Rain

Posing on Picture Day

"Really Mom?" I guess the paparazzi of these cuties gets

to be a bit much.