First Day of Preschool

Today was Aaron's first day of Pre-K for the year.  He did go to preschool last spring, so he has been counting down the days until school started up for him.  He couldn't wait.  He requested scrambled eggs for breakfast and was pleased as pie to finally strap on his Diego backpack and head off to his "high school."  Of course we took a bunch of pictures commemorating the big milestone.

Last year, I became aware of a program that our district's high schools offer.  Its preschool for 3-5 year olds where the teachers are high school students.  The high school students are paired up one-on-one with a preschooler.  Its an awesome program.  Not only do the preschoolers get one-on-one attention, but they are able to do more interesting/complicated crafts and projects because of the manpower that they have.  I also love it because the high school students genuinely LOVE preschoolers.  They have lots of energy and are so sweet with them.

This year Aaron's good friend, Jenna, is in his preschool class.  He was so excited because he has a 'buddy' and us moms are excited because now we have can carpool.  We happened to pull into the parking lot at the same time.  So we waited for Jenna to make her adorable entrance so we could walk in together.

Then we snapped a few pictures of them together in front of the high school.

When did these 2 get so big?

Don't they look so tiny?!?!

Today's first class was one where the parents could stay while the kids got comfortable.  Last spring on his first day, Aaron dismissed me after about 3 minutes.  I was the only parent that didn't stay.  This year, he was more shy and tentative.  He wanted me to stay the whole time and to be honest, my other 3 boys were at my sister-in-law's, so it was pretty relaxing just standing on the sidelines chatting with my good friend Yvonne.  He came over twice for some reassurances (aka hugs) but after that, he pretty much ignored me.  Sounds about right!

Two years ago, I sent my oldest boys to their first day of preschool with my friend Yvonne's oldest (Joshua).  Here is a picture from that day two years ago.

And, in just a few years (sooner than I care to admit).  Yvonne and I will be sending these last two to preschool (our youngest babies). 

Caleb (10 months)  & Becca (8 months) enjoying puzzle time this past spring. 

But enough talk about that.  Thankfully I have at least two years (maybe three) before I have to face that milestone.