First Day!

Today is the first day of the Parents Morning Out program! Lily and Amelia will both attend Bethany UMC this year. Ryan, Lily and I went to their open house last Thursday to meet the teachers and see their rooms. Lily is going to have Miss Danielle and Miss Tricia as her teachers this year; they are both very nice, and it seems like they have a lot of fun activities planned. Mia is going to have Miss Stephanie, Miss Gwen and Miss Nicole in her room. They are all sweet ladies who seem to love little babies! The greatest part is both girls are in a room with only one other child (for right now). They are both in rooms where younger children may be promoted up if that fit seems right, but for now, it's just them with one other child. Also, Lily's classmate is a little girl named Kaitlyn who was in her class last year. I am hoping they will be friends with one another.

This morning, everyone got dressed, ate and we were out the door on time. Lily even seemed somewhat excited about going to school. As we were driving down the road, Lily looked out the window, laughed and said "There's the moon! There's the quarter moon!" Sure enough, there it was. I thought that was pretty cool that she recognized the stage of the moon. Thank you, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Halloween episode.

We arrived at school and walked them in to their rooms instead of dropping them off in the car pool line. Lily started getting upset that we were leaving her, but it was not a hysterical upset like in the past. We left her and promised we would see her soon. We then took Mia to her room. She smiled really big and immediately and happily went into Miss Stephanie's arms. We reviewed her schedule with Stephanie and left with no tears (mine or Amelia's!). As we walked quickly past Lily's room, we noticed she wasn't crying anymore, so we felt good about leaving her.

When we picked the girls up, Mia was very happy, and Miss Nicole said she had a good day; she also commented on what a happy baby she is. I couldn't help but agree. Lily came out a few minutes later, so we all got in the car. As we pulled out, this was our conversation with Lily...

Me: Did you have a good first day of school?
Lily: No!
Me: What did you do today?
Lily: I no do anything!
Ryan: Did you sing?
Lily: No!
Ryan: Did you color?
Lily: No!
Ryan: Did you read books?
Lily: No! I no do anything!

Get the picture? When we got home, we looked over the teacher's notes from the day and apparently Lily did very well. There were check marks next to "shared toys," "used manners" and "listened to the story" plus a few other good remarks that I can't remember right now. I asked Lily about them, and she got very excited when I praised her for sharing and taking turns with Kaitlyn. Turns out she did do something!

I know this will be a little bit of an adjustment for her as she returns to the "school schedule," but I think this will be another great year for her. I think Mia is going to adjust easily and have fun too; they read to them, take them on walks, let them nap and just have all sorts of fun at that age. I think our girls are very lucky to be involved in this program.