I'm a little late posting this, but I wanted to talk about their first preschool experience. They started a 2 day a week program this fall, Tues & Thurs, 9 to 1:30pm at a church nearby. It's going great now, but it did start out rough. Actually, we talked about school a lot over the summer and they seemed pretty excited. Here they are on the way to school, their first day. :)
Sophia did great from day 1, she never cried and she seemed to enjoy it. Jacob, had a pretty rough transition, poor baby. When I went and picked them up on the first day of school, Alyson (the owner) was waiting outside the classroom to greet parents. She looked at me, smiled and said something like "Ok...." (I knew it was not a good day when she started her sentence that way) "Jacob had a rough day, but there were moments when he did stop crying." Yikes!! He had another rough couple of weeks...here's one picture I snapped just after his 2nd week. This was taken just after I parked the van, ready to walk them inside.
That face!! Wow, that says it all. Well, thankfully, that has passed. We're mid way through our 2nd month and they are both very excited about it. They love carrying their lunch bag & putting it where it goes once we walk in the classroom. They both tell me bits and pieces of their day (including which kids went to timeout and why) :-) Some of their favorite activities at school are:
Tumble Bus which comes once a week, Signing with
My Smart Hands, also once a week. (We actually took her class a year ago, that's us on her front page!) They also come home with lots of crafts. They have really awesome teachers, I'm sure that makes all the difference. They love it (now) and so does momma!! Here are more pics of them playing after I pick them up. (Oh and an added bonus, my good friend, Jenny, enrolled her daughter there too. So they had another familiar face in the classroom! Yay!)
