Preschool, Part 1: The Drop Off
Well, I did it. I just dropped Keegan off at his first day of preschool. Nathan went too since it was on his way to work. I'm glad he went with us.
The preschool is at a church nearby (13 min drive today). We don't attend this particular church but they are well known for their annual fish fry. We figured any church that could fry food well was worthy of providing our child's eduction.
We'd been mentally prepping Keegan for this day.... talking about all the fun things they'd be doing, telling him about school, and so forth.
I also let him pick out a shirt at Target for his first day of school. Here he is in his new shirt today:
And, Nathan & I picked out his skull and crossbones backpack from the Gap because I refused to let Keegan pick a character one from the other stores (ie: no Spongebob!).
And, here he is wearing his bear name tag that he has to wear all this week:
We arrived at the school and he seemed somewhat excited. I think that's before he realized that Mommy & Daddy were leaving him there by himself. :) First, a woman looks in all the kids mouths with a flashlight (checking for sickness). Keegan refused but that was OK today. Then we found his name on his coat hook:
We went into the classroom and they had Playdoh out for kids to get started with. The other kids looked happy and played. The parents were leaving with no problems. Keegan, on the other hand, refused to play and would not let go of me. I finally had the teacher hold onto him so I could get out the door. I could hear him crying as we walked away down the hall. Actually, this went much better than anticipated though so that was good!
He's on the far left in the teacher's arms:
I made it to the car and down the street before crying myself. I was sad that Keegan is such a big boy now and I cried knowing that he was there scared and I couldn't be there for him.
I'm picking him up later and will have a babysitter for Kennedy for a couple of hours. We'll have an afternoon of quality time together, just the 2 of us!
I'll try to post Part 2: The Pick Up - later if if's worth writing about! :)
The preschool is at a church nearby (13 min drive today). We don't attend this particular church but they are well known for their annual fish fry. We figured any church that could fry food well was worthy of providing our child's eduction.
We'd been mentally prepping Keegan for this day.... talking about all the fun things they'd be doing, telling him about school, and so forth.
I also let him pick out a shirt at Target for his first day of school. Here he is in his new shirt today:
And, Nathan & I picked out his skull and crossbones backpack from the Gap because I refused to let Keegan pick a character one from the other stores (ie: no Spongebob!).
And, here he is wearing his bear name tag that he has to wear all this week:
We arrived at the school and he seemed somewhat excited. I think that's before he realized that Mommy & Daddy were leaving him there by himself. :) First, a woman looks in all the kids mouths with a flashlight (checking for sickness). Keegan refused but that was OK today. Then we found his name on his coat hook:
We went into the classroom and they had Playdoh out for kids to get started with. The other kids looked happy and played. The parents were leaving with no problems. Keegan, on the other hand, refused to play and would not let go of me. I finally had the teacher hold onto him so I could get out the door. I could hear him crying as we walked away down the hall. Actually, this went much better than anticipated though so that was good! He's on the far left in the teacher's arms:
I made it to the car and down the street before crying myself. I was sad that Keegan is such a big boy now and I cried knowing that he was there scared and I couldn't be there for him.I'm picking him up later and will have a babysitter for Kennedy for a couple of hours. We'll have an afternoon of quality time together, just the 2 of us!
I'll try to post Part 2: The Pick Up - later if if's worth writing about! :)
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