First Day of Preschool

the sunscreen makes her face nice & shiny :)

and "Luci's School Day Checklist"...we had a checklist...just like Dad has checklists...

what a difference a year makes!! holy cow!! our AM went pretty smooth overall...largely thanks to my 'Luci's School Day Checklist', if i do say so myself ;) that & the m&m i used as a reward. i once swore i'd never use food to motivate...i guess the lesson is to never say never. but anyway. so the am went smoothly. she had a few fake tears & some fake drama as we were turning into the school, but then they stopped when we actually parked & got out. we arrived before the kids could walk to their rooms so we had time to chat with our friends and that seemed to help. we walked into her room where she was happy at first, but then started to fuss when she saw her teacher miss l. but just as quickly her friend allie walked in & the two of them were off putting on dress up clothes & having a tea party! she seemed pretty indifferent when i finally told her good-bye...not even really looking up from her kitchen busywork.

she was happy to see me when we picked her up, but no tears - just happy to see us! she did cry when we got in the car though...i asked her if she had gotten the little note i put her in her lunchbox...she said yes, she did (but not very convincingly), and then she told me she wanted to see it...but it had been thrown out & she just lost it when i told her that. i told her we'd make a new one together but the waterworks had been turned on. we headed out of the parking lot but then i saw her bestie clara so we stopped & she got out to give clara a hug. and then all was well again.

"we sat & talked about numbers! and shapes! and i just played! um, i played with eleanor! and talk about ABCD!" i asked if she had gone potty, "i did! just all by myself! just one potty." in response to the ? what was your favorite part..."circle time playing with numbers for a little while."