Dancing in the Rain: Daisy's First Day

Daisy had her first day at her new preschool, The Owl's Nest, on Wednesday. It is a private preschool on-site at Helen's elementary school. It is very different from where they previously went to preschool in several ways. The most obvious is that it's at Helen's school. This is extremely convenient for me since I have one drop-off time now. Daisy goes in "early" at 8:00, same time as Helen, and then the preschool is from 9-12. I pick her up at 12 and Helen at 2:45. Secondly, there is only one 3-year-old class and one 4-year-old class, both of which have 25 kids and 3 teachers. Many, many, many more than her previous preschool, but the ratio is not too bad. I think Daisy will handle it well and it will familiarize her with the school where she will go to elementary as well as developing many friends who will also likely go to Lovett.

So Wednesday was her first day. They have half the kids go Wednesday and half Thursday to get them used to it before the big onslaught of kids. The problem is, because she is a second child I'm sure, I neglected to take any photos on Wednesday or even think about it until I was the only one without a camera (or even a video camera!) on the first day. So sorry my second child. Mommy loves you just as much, but I've run all out of energy I guess! So our "first day" photos are actually from Friday, which Daron assures me is just fine since that was the first day with all the kids.

Daisy dressed herself this morning as she often does and Helen decided to match her since she has a shirt like that too. Helen is actually loving Daisy going to her school and shares her school breakfast with her in the cafeteria before the bell rings.

On Daisy's first real day, she said she had fun but fell off the swing and cried. Today she also said she had fun. Both days, she deigns to give me a quick air kiss to humor me so I will go and leave her to all the important fun she has to do. I was quite choked up on Wednesday. Something to do with her being at a "big kid" school and wearing her Elmo backpack. But today I painted the breakfast room (maybe my new office?) with my new-found kid-free time.