Our Back to School Ritual

Each morning on the first day of school we pose for "the" picture.  The boys hold up the number of fingers which represent the grade they'll be attending ......  for my benefit as I might not always date them correctly nor will I remember if Rip or Snort was wearing that outfit in the 5th or 6th or 7th or 8th grade...Our youngest darling must have been too sleepy to hold his hand up straight...so that you could see that he's entering the 5th grade.  Bless his heart...his mean old parents have worked him to a frazzle over the summer...