The wheels on the bus...

Porter has been riding the bus to school for a few weeks now. We started the service because Porter kept asking when he could ride the bus ( he would see the other kids getting on it after school). I called the school district and set it up and they said they would call with my pick up time the night before his first ride. We were not home when they called, and they said the pick up time was at 8:20. I think if I was home i would have told them never mind!! His school does not start until 9:10 so that is a really long ride for a three year old... heck its a long ride for anyone! He was already expecting to ride the bus though and once Porter is expecting something you cant change it or its an aweful meltdown for days.. so we got him up an hour earlier than normal and got him on the bus. He is the first drop off after school.. so only a 10 minute ride then. He gets back at 12:15. When he got off the bus he told us that it was a really long ride and he was bored and tired. He said he didn't want to ride the bus anymore, but I thought we would try it for a few weeks. Yesterday he cried and cried that he didn't want to go to school... turns out he just didn't want to ride the long bus ride in the morning. So we drove him to school and he just rode it home. I called the district and the woman said she would have someone call me and tell me if he can just ride after school, and we can drive him there. If not, I think we will scratch the whole bus idea, as really its not that hard to drive him and if the bus makes him not want to go its not worth it.

Here are some pictures of him getting off the first day. The bus comes to the end of our street, by the mail boxes.