Preschool Begins

Funny that I came to write this post and see that the last time I posted was about my search for a preschool.  So maybe it's obvious that things have been busy since.

We picked our school, got our last summer fun in and prepared for the new adventure.

I gathered some really good ideas from friends about how to make this time special.  As I Googled ideas, I saw a lot of creative things, so I just had to pick some of my top favorite ideas.



The first was to make a special breakfast of whatever Joshua would want - even if it was chicken nuggets.  His first request was peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but then he changed it to Mickey Mouse pancakes.  Voila!

I also have been seeing a friend post monthly pictures of her baby with the age written on a chalkboard.  I thought it was so cute and wanted to do that to mark school years.  And I was surprised to find tons of photos of kids with chalkboards (I guess I'm not so original).  After a frustrating search for the right chalkboard I realized I could make one.  Voila!

It was recommended to me that we pick a spot to take the school photos in every year.

Another friend talked about making a banner.  Voila!

He saw this when he came home.

We tried to get Joshua to crash through it, but he was too hesitant.  Jim helped him tear it down.

We did finally have the PBJ for lunch (and pizza is on the menu for tonight).

I also found a couple variations of asking your child specific questions each year to see how they change.  Here is today's interview:

Favorite color: Red
Favorite character on TV: Mickey Mouse
What do you want to be when you grow up? First answer: "Up to the sky."  Second answer: "Mickey Mouse."

As for school itself, it all went really well.  We had a visitation day last week for Josh to meet his teacher and see his classroom.  Today was a short introductory day from 10:00am - 11:45am.  Normal class time is 9:00am - 11:45am.  He will be going on Mondays/Wednesdays.

We've been talking about going to school and trying to get him excited.  He seemed fine going in, but as we started to say goodbye, his eyes started to tear up.  I was actually surprised and wonder if it was more reacting to someone else being upset.  But we gave him a hug and said goodbye and he seemed fine.  And he was perfectly fine when we picked him up.  And thankfully he's excited to go back.

We are now the parents of a preschooler.  It definitely felt weird walking up to the school along with all the other parents.  And the mom-mobile brigade makes me laugh every time we pull into the parking lot.  We're looking to get a minivan pretty soon so I'm going to really fit right in.