First Day of Preschool

Laurie started Preschool last week! In stark contrast to last year, there was no crying or stress. She was ready and excited to go to school. As an extra plus, 6 of the 12 kids in her class were in her class last year, and she already knew her teacher.

We learned at "Forms Day" before school started, that Laurie is an Aqua Friend. All the classes have color names and I was a little concerned that my young 3 yr old got the "strange" color, but it didn't take her long to learn it. In fact, she wore her pretty Aqua dress to "Meet the Teacher" day.

Several new things for her this year include "signing in" every day when she arrives to class. This is a picture of her new teacher showing her how to put her aqua sticker on the attendance poster. Birdie also discovered that the first activity of the day is cutting with scissors. Wow, that was a huge hit! Laurie loves all the painting, coloring, playing outside, dress up and so many more neat things she gets to do while at preschool. During her first week, she even got to be the Line Leader. This is a big honor in the class.

Due to her August birthday, our little girl started in the 3's class with kids that are already turning 4 this month and are much bigger. Don't worry about her though, she's used to asserting herself against bigger kids - her older brother and sister! She thinks she is finally in with the "big kids".

One of the things Laurie LOVES about the new school year is that we are carpooling to school with her cousin, Alex. He is in a different class at the preschool, but they see each other on the playground and in the car. The two of them are so very cute together. I know Leah and I say that all the time, but it really is true. They are just the best friends, even when they're arguing about something trivial, which happens so often. This is a picture of them waiting in the car to get out in the carpool line one morning the first week of school.

Now that Daniel is in Elementary school and no longer on our drive to the preschool, Laurie and I have continued Daniel's counting of the school buses. On the 2nd day of school, Laurie, Alex and I counted 74 buses, almost beating Daniel's all time high of 84.