1st Day of School

Junior attended his first day of preschool today and it seemed to go fairly well. He gets to go 2 days a week this year as opposed to the one day a week he went last year when he was 2 years old. At home he was ready to go to school, getting his lunch box, back pack and camera out (I told him I had to take pictures of him before we left). Then it was a different story when we walked in the door to the school. He still cried (like last year) as I left him, but only for a minute. He was easily distracted by the teacher playing with blocks and dinosaurs with him. He caught a glance of me watching from outside his door a few minutes later and just smiled and held up a dinosaur for me to see. He then continued to play and I left to later return and pick him up. Of all ten of the kids in the class, 9 of them are the same kids that were in the last class together (one boy decided not to come back this year). So I am sure that made it much easier for him to adapt to his new classroom and teacher. It sure is nice to see familiar parents and kids once again for me also. I was told by many of the teachers there that this rarely happens that the whole class remains together.

Junior's day actually started even before we left for school. He attended his first day of speech therapy at the local elementary school at 8am. He will go twice a week for 30 minutes from 8-8:30am and then head off to school at 9am. He will have busy days...but that means he will take excellent naps when I get him home at 2pm. He loved his first session this morning talking about the "ribbit" he made out of play-doh. He willingly left, with a smile on his face, with the speech therapist. So this made me assume he would easily separate from me when we went to school later...oh well, not so much!

Junior's signature pose

Picking him up at the end of the day