Johnny's First Day: Preschool!

Today was the day Johnny had been counting down to for months.....the day he gets to go to his new preschool....aka "Simon's School"!!! 

His excitement made things a little easier for this mama saying goodbye to him for a couple hours in the morning. This morning he woke up earlier than normal, was dressed quickly, was ecstatic to take first day pictures and gobbled up his breakfast like he'd never eaten.  

We chose a different preschool for Johnny this year for several reasons but mostly because we had heard great things about it from the Okos' and because of his age and need for a more structured learning environment than we've had in the past. As I've said about a million times before, change is hard for me sometimes and this was no exception. The school does a great job of introducing you to the classroom though so that definitely made it easier. Between an open house and a meet the teacher appointment, we were very comfortable with what was going to happen. 

This little boy walked right into his classroom, followed the arrows and instructions and couldn't wait to start playing at the hot wheel station. He asked where Simon was and after replying "he's not here yet but he'll be here in a little bit", he gave me a hug and said "bye mom". At that point Charlie also gave me a hug and proceeded to play with the cars. Sweet boy wanted to stay and play with his big brother! 

After picking up Charlie, we headed out the door to run some errands until it was time to come back and grab Johnny. Charlie constantly asked where Johnny was during that time which was the cutest thing! He was so excited to see him at pick up and I did get a few details from Johnny about the morning....mostly about the playground equipment that he got to play on. He is the helper of the day tomorrow and gets to bring in an item for show and tell so he's really pumped for that. 

Here's to a great year of preschool; John and I just know our little buddy is going to thrive! 

First day pictures!

Mellany joined in on some and Charlie continued sleeping (as usual....haha!). We waited a little too long to take the pictures this morning and the sun was so bright! (We aren't quite used to facing the sunrise.) Kelley was able to snap a couple pictures of the boys walking from the playground and I got one of Johnny and Simon in their classroom with "Pete the Cat".