Preschool!

This is Dillon's first year of preschool and Kayda's second (though it's her first at this school).  Kayda has been rearing to go since we bought clothes a few weeks ago.  Dillon has been on the fence about the whole thing which surprised me because he LOVED when we would stay with Kayda at prsechool last year.  We're figuring out our mornings, they are adjusting to waking up and going to bed an hour earlier.  We started last Wednesday night and they're doing really well with it!  They choose their clothes before we go to bed so when we get up they just have to put them on and eat. 

Today Daddy and I brought them to preschool since it was the first day. Here we are on our way, you can even see Daddy in the suburban behind us!

 

 Off to the races!

 One of the things I like so far about this preschool is that there is only the ONE group so EVERYTHING in it is personalized for them.  You don't look around the room and see four different clusters of names.  Each kid has a coat hook assigned to them (which had their name tags on them today), there is an apple tree where there are apples with each kids names on it, there's a birthday wall with their names sorted by the month of the birthday... and it goes on. 

 Their activity while kids were floating in was playdough!  Kayda took off to yellow and Dillon wandered over to the blue.  It's funny that it worked out so that the "yellow" table had almost all girls and the "blue" table was ALL boys.  Kayda later moved to the green table. 

 Kayda dove right in but Dillon was playing shy a little bit.  Which is NOT at all the usual behavior for him.  He had Daddy very concerned that he wasn't comfortable and wasn't going to enjoy preschool.  I was ready to head out, I was pretty confident that they would be just fine.  Daddy wanted to stand in the doorway for a little longer so Carson and I took off and Daddy stayed to watch.  Gotta love a protective Daddy who loves his kids SO much!

 They did a GREAT job at preschool the teacher was very impressed.  They even managed to stay sitting on the rug where they wait for mom or dad until the teacher said their names (they knew I'd been standing there for several minutes).  Their art today was a "Kissing hand" apparently it's a book about a raccoon that was scared to go to school.  Kayda was very excited to tell me all about the book and Dillon wanted to show me how a "kissing hand" worked.  (You kiss your hand and put it on your heart whenever you miss your mom)

Proof that Carson and I were there!