New School Time

Adelaide has been going to daycare full time since she was 13 weeks old.  We pulled her out of daycare when I stopped working in mid July which I thought would make everyone happy.  Apparently being very very pregnant and then caring for a new baby didn't give Adelaide all of the attention she was used to and as discussed in prior posts made bedtime pretty rough.  Neither Grant nor I intended on sending her to school while I am staying home for a few months, but it was obvious she needed more activities outside of the house. I called around to a bunch of different places and I didn't find anyone telling me what I wanted to hear until we discovered A's now "new cool (school)".

We took a tour of the school while they were still setting up the classroom and we happened to catch what is now A's new teacher.  I immediately went home, called Grant and the next day dropped off the registration check because the preschool was fabulous.  I'm pretty sure that I was more excited about A starting school than she was.  These are a few pics from our tour and before the classrooms were all set up.

School director and new teacher.

A loved Mrs. Wolfe immediately.

A was sold on the school after seeing just a little bit of the playground - priorities.

We had a few weeks before school was starting as they operate on the county school district calendar so we took the opportunity to order A her very first big girl backpack.  A didn't want to stop touching it from the moment it arrived on our doorstep.  In fact on her first day she spent half of the morning crying because she wouldn't put the bag down long enough for me to fill it with all of her essentials like a juice box and snack.  Needless to say we were the first ones in car line drop off that morning.

A was so excited about her new "packpack" that she would keep her eyes or hands off of it.

New school time!

Yep, that's A in the middle of line on her first day of preschool and she is a full head shorter than everyone else.

See yah Mom, don't need you anymore.

School has now been in session for a few weeks and A comes home with all kinds of fun projects.  She only goes two days a week and I'm amazed at how much they can cram into a few hours.  When I do head back to work it's going to be disappointing to leave behind this little gem of a school as they do not have hours anywhere close to a real daycare facility.

Teddy Bear Picnic day - Minnie got to visit the school too.

Week 3 was all about clown noses and you should have seen my surprise when she came out to the car with her face painted.

D for dinosaurs and Daddy.