Wednesday Riley had his first day of preschool. He's going on Monday and Wednesday mornings with his good friend, Isaac, from daycare. These two boys are three weeks apart and have been together at Shelley's since the beginning.
Tuesday night I went into Riley's room to give him a smooch good night ... and he looked at me and said, "MOM, I'm going to SCHOOL tomorrow!!" I'm not sure how he got to sleep because you could see the excitement in his eyes as he lay covered by his b-b. Wednesday morning I woke him up ... it's the easiest he's ever gotten up. Daddy dressed him and we all ate some breakfast ...
Riley ate with his backpack on ....
Then brushed his teeth with his backpack on ...
And of course we had to take the traditional picture in front of the house ...
Sitting with his sister ...
At this point I decided not to embarrass him and the pictures were done (I'll sneak some classroom pictures at a later date when it's not so obvious). We headed off to Shelley's so we could drop Paige off. All the way over there Riley was going over how Paige had to go to daycare and HE could go to SCHOOL. He was so proud of himself.
Once we got to the school building Riley walked right in ... not afraid of anything. We found his classroom, put on his name tag, and finally the teacher opened the door ... and he was off!!! The kid must have some kind of radar for cars and trucks because in a room full of activities and toys, he walked INSTANTLY to the bucket of cars. We spent time exploring the room and meeting his teacher. The kids sat down to eat a snack while the teacher took mom's and dad's over to the other side of the room to give us information on the year. At some point during all of this, Riley found a big paper clip amongst the toys or something and walked right through the parents saying ... "Teacher! Teacher! I found this in the toys." Ha ha. After their snack time, the assistant teacher took all the kids to the gym. Riley was first in line at the door. While I was so happy that he was adjusting well, I was a bit sad that he didn't need us for anything. :) After the kids came back, we all gathered our stuff and headed out. It was a short first day ... more just to get them used to everything in the room.
Riley was very proud of the fact that he'd gone to school that day. And the thing that impressed him the most? The play cars. That's the first thing he's told all the grandparents about. :)
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