Kayla started preschool this month! The first 2 days were awesome...the first day she was so excited seeing her classroom and all of the fun things to play with. I stayed for about an hour with her...we played in her classroom for a while...then she "giddily" ran down the hall to check out the other classrooms and then we went to the multipurpose room and met a bunch of the kids...there was one girl from the 4-5 year old class class who was really cute and said she would watch after Kayla (she actually wanted to carry her to her classroom...and tried :-) When I left that first day her teacher (Mabel) had set up some art stations in the classroom and so I rolled out playdoh with Kayla and some of the other children and then kissed her on the head and said good bye and she just said "bye mom" and turned back to what she was doing. They said that she did awesome and took to the other kids really well. She also napped fine on the cot which I was worried about because she's never slept on a cot amongst a bunch of children and things to play with before... but Mabel said she must have recognized her sheet because she went right over to it, crawled in and fell asleep. Bryan said she seemed so tired when he picked her up that first day but she was fine/ normal when she got home. The 2nd morning we went into the multipurpose room and she ran up and gave Mabel a hug and I said I was going to sign her in (I wasn't going to leave yet) and she just turned around and said bye mom! and went off toward the slides...So - I was really excited it was going so well/ so easily.
Then... Wednesday happened...:-( She did not want to get out of the car...kept buckling herself back in...when I finally got her into the building she didn't want me to leave and kept pulling me toward the doors. Mabel ended up just taking her from my arms crying and when I called around 10 in the morning they said she was having a great morning and quieted down shortly after I left...and in the afternoon when Bryan picked her up she was playing with the other kids running around happily (and they had water play which they have once a week through the summers and setup pools and waterslides and stuff so I'm sure she loved that). But then dropping her off was worse the next day and it only seemed to get worse over the next two weeks...pulling my shirt off...screaming for me not to leave her! I felt so bad leaving her like that but yet I knew she was enjoying school because every day she would come home and tell me what she learned that day and show me her artwork! But then...last week everything became wonderful! We pulled up on Monday and she goes "yeh" and started clapping her hands. When we went inside she was so excited - showing me all of the dinosaurs and things on the walls. When we got to her classroom it was her friend Aiden's first day (from daycare) and so she was SO excited to see him. When I left she said "bye mom" and was taking him around the class showing him all of the fun things to play with. And that's how it went all week...I would pull up and she would get so excited and start cheering when we pulled in....she would practically skip to her classroom (still holding my hand) and we would put her things away and then she would say "bye mom"...give me a hug...and off I'd go with no tears! What a relief. Daddy even got her to wear her backpack on their way home from school! Today was hilarious...I brought her into her classroom and was talking to her teacher - she said "bye mom" and gave me my hug but since I was still talking to the teacher I hadn't left yet...she repeated "bye mom" and started pushing me out the door:-) I said to her teacher - my - how things change so qui
ckly! I love that girl! Such a riot...
Kayla started preschool this month! The first 2 days were awesome...the first day she was so excited seeing her classroom and all of the fun things to play with. I stayed for about an hour with her...we played in her classroom for a while...then she "giddily" ran down the hall to check out the other classrooms and then we went to the multipurpose room and met a bunch of the kids...there was one girl from the 4-5 year old class class who was really cute and said she would watch after Kayla (she actually wanted to carry her to her classroom...and tried :-) When I left that first day her teacher (Mabel) had set up some art stations in the classroom and so I rolled out playdoh with Kayla and some of the other children and then kissed her on the head and said good bye and she just said "bye mom" and turned back to what she was doing. They said that she did awesome and took to the other kids really well. She also napped fine on the cot which I was worried about because she's never slept on a cot amongst a bunch of children and things to play with before... but Mabel said she must have recognized her sheet because she went right over to it, crawled in and fell asleep. Bryan said she seemed so tired when he picked her up that first day but she was fine/ normal when she got home. The 2nd morning we went into the multipurpose room and she ran up and gave Mabel a hug and I said I was going to sign her in (I wasn't going to leave yet) and she just turned around and said bye mom! and went off toward the slides...So - I was really excited it was going so well/ so easily. 
Then... Wednesday happened...:-( She did not want to get out of the car...kept buckling herself back in...when I finally got her into the building she didn't want me to leave and kept pulling me toward the doors. Mabel ended up just taking her from my arms crying and when I called around 10 in the morning they said she was having a great morning and quieted down shortly after I left...and in the afternoon when Bryan picked her up she was playing with the other kids running around happily (and they had water play which they have once a week through the summers and setup pools and waterslides and stuff so I'm sure she loved that). But then dropping her off was worse the next day and it only seemed to get worse over the next two weeks...pulling my shirt off...screaming for me not to leave her! I felt so bad leaving her like that but yet I knew she was enjoying school because every day she would come home and tell me what she learned that day and show me her artwork! But then...last week everything became wonderful! We pulled up on Monday and she goes "yeh" and started clapping her hands. When we went inside she was so excited - showing me all of the dinosaurs and things on the walls. When we got to her classroom it was her friend Aiden's first day (from daycare) and so she was SO excited to see him. When I left she said "bye mom" and was taking him around the class showing him all of the fun things to play with. And that's how it went all week...I would pull up and she would get so excited and start cheering when we pulled in....she would practically skip to her classroom (still holding my hand) and we would put her things away and then she would say "bye mom"...give me a hug...and off I'd go with no tears! What a relief. Daddy even got her to wear her backpack on their way home from school! Today was hilarious...I brought her into her classroom and was talking to her teacher - she said "bye mom" and gave me my hug but since I was still talking to the teacher I hadn't left yet...she repeated "bye mom" and started pushing me out the door:-) I said to her teacher - my - how things change so qui
ckly! I love that girl! Such a riot...
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