First Day of Preschool

Chase gave us a hard time over the last few months...saying he didn't want to go to preschool (we were like, whatever kid, you NEED to go!)...his attitude changed last week after we went in and met his teacher! Ok, so Chase didn't actually make it into the classroom last week, he was a bit shy, but the teachers aide sat out in the hallway with him and chatted while we met with his teacher...details, details ;o)

We've been talking it up since then, and Chase was super-excited last night...he dresses himself in the AM, so I was VERY CAREFUL to put everything else away...or else he'd come down looking like this

So, last night, his little outfit was picked out by him...with a very scientific method of eenie-meenie-miney-mo...to pick out his shirt and underwear. We got his book bag ready, and he went to bed super-excited. This morning when he woke up he came running into the bathroom to tell me what today was...I asked if he wanted to go ahead and get dressed and he looked at me and was like "mooom, if I get dressed now, I'll get my shirt dirty at breakfast" in the most exasperated voice. Silly me!

Bruce made breakfast...here's Chase and Addy going to town...Chase is wearing his book bag at the table...we were certain he was going to fall out of the chair...he made it through

After we got the kids dressed, we headed out front for a first day of school photo shoot...we just got a "new" used camera (a Canon Rebel SLR...I love it) off craigslist last week, and I'm still getting used to how it works. The great thing is it takes rapid-fire shots...but the kids (Addy mainly) don't really cooperate with the whole "look at your mother when I'm taking your picture thing"

After dropping the big-guy off (it went really well, up until the cluster-you know what at the door going into the classroom with everyone else coming in, kids crying, etc) Addy and I went to the park, the library and even made a trip to Target...Addy wasn't amused, she was lost without her brotha...and was a bi-polar mess all morning :o) When we picked Chase up, Addy lost it...she cried that she wanted to go in his room (couldn't...same Chaos as the AM drop off was going on at pick-up) and as Chase was going through the details (circle time, snack, playground) Addy cried about each thing, saying she wanted to do it...sigh, the girl is going to win an academy award some day.

(Thinking to herself..."this isn't much fun without my Chasey")

We are sooo proud of our little guy, and thrilled that we were able to get him in at a pre-school we felt good about...it was touch and go there for a while over the summer, when we didn't know if he was going to get in or not b/c of the wait-list...and then we moved into a house 5 minutes away...it doesn't get much better than that!