First Day of Preschool

Emma started preschool this week.  She has been very excited to start school.  She has a November birthday so other kids from her primary class are going to kindergarten this year but she has to wait until next year.  She'll be more than ready for kindergarten when it comes.  She's going to one of the local public elementary schools but not our neighborhood school since they don't offer preschool.  So I drive about 5 minutes over to another school to take her.  It makes the morning drop offs a little crazy but she only goes two days a week for about 2 hours so we should be able to handle it.  Here she is ready to go on her first day.  Anna helped her pick out an outfit for the first day.

Emma has been eager to start school - I think she was impatient because the other kids had already started.  She's been a little bored at home without her siblings.  She starts asking at about 10am when we can pick them up from school.

She's getting very bored of going shopping with me too

Ready for school!

Here we are visiting Emma's pre-k class.

She was really excited because the school's mascot is the Husky Dog and Emma loves huskies.  She even found a big stuffed animal husky in her classroom.

She drew many pictures for her new teacher.

John and Emma like to draw pictures for their teacher a lot.

Emma is getting pretty good at cleaning her room on her own.

John and Grant could take a few tips from her.  Keeping it clean is another story.

And here we are at school on the first day.

Even though it says kindergarten behind her this is where her preschool class meets

She was only a little nervous but had no first day tears or anything.  I dropped her off and gave her a quick hug and then left.  My aunt asked me what I was going to do with myself while she was at school (only 2.5 hours twice a week) and I imagined I wouldn't do much since its not that much time, but it actually felt longer than I expected.  I had my first kid-free morning since having kids (minus three trips without kids I've gone on over the past 12 years).  I went on a run outside with no stroller.  And had time to get groceries and head home for a quick shower before going to pick her up.  It's been kind of a crazy summer with a lot of kid chaos and I felt kind of taken by surprise when I dropped her off and then had no kids with me for a few hours.  That's definitely out of the ordinary for me.  

But soon enough the first day of preschool was over and I headed back to pick her up.  She said she had a great time but had trouble remembering all the things they did.  Her teacher said she wasn't nervous and participated.  Here she is after the first day.  She was upset the next day when I told her she didn't have preschool that day.  :). So she's ready for preschool and next year kindergarten!!