Kathryn's first day

Today, Kathryn started preschool. She will be in a preschool program at Julian's school, which she could get into because of her speech therapy. She will have speech therapy 2 days a week, and the other 3, she'll get to play and do all the normal preschool stuff. She was super-excited to go this morning. She has been anxious to carry her new Dora backpack somewhere since we bought it a couple of weeks ago.

Julian was almost as excited as Kathryn was for her to be at his school. Although they will not see each other during the day at all (the preschool kids don't leave the room except to go to their own private playground), he really wanted her there. Now, don't get the wrong idea, he did not want her there so she would be close to him, or some loving brother/sister thing. He told me he's glad she'll be at school because now she won't be able to watch movies without him while he is at school!

Regardless of the reason, Julian was very helpful this morning, and buckled Kathryn for me. This will be her last week riding in a car seat. Next week, she'll be 4, and will graduate into a booster seat!

We were all up bright and early to get ready - we are definitely not used to having to get all 4 of us ready before 7:30 am! But, I think it went well. I did forget to give Julian his lunch money, but was able to fix that when I went back to get Kathryn at 11:30.

When I dropped her off, she went straight to playing at one of the stations, and did not even think to take her backpack off or say bye to me. There was another little boy that was not as excited to be there, and his screams scared some of the other kids a bit, but Kathryn was perfectly OK with me leaving her there. She actually was not ready to go home when I went to get her - she will be the only one staying half days, so she was the only one leaving. She wanted to stay there for lunch and nap, but I just am not ready for her to stay 5 full days at school.

All in all, it was a good morning. She loved being there, and I wasn't too torn up about leaving her. There were a couple of teary moments - for me, not her - but such is life! When I got back to the house from dropping her off, there were 3 reminders going off on the computer for work stuff, so I just started working and was mostly finished when it was time to get her. Pretty good deal. I hope it continues to go this well, and that she won't get tired of it.