August 16, 2011

1st Day of Pre-K 3!

Highlights from today: (Click here for pictures)

• Today was our fourth first day back to school (2 for Reagan-one at home and one at Comm Central, 1 for Anderson and today was Graham’s turn).  Graham was so excited about going to Anderson’s class.  He took a picture with his sign and then held it the whole way to school.
• Anderson was quick to walk into school this morning and found his name and washed his hands like this was his 100th day of school.  Graham followed Anderson’s lead and did great.  I asked him if he wanted to play with blocks and he said “no” and then I said “find something to do” and hugged him and walked out.  And there wasn’t any drama (prayers answered)
• Reagan and Campbell spent the morning playing at Nonna’s house.  They snacked, played outside, rode in the wagon pulled by Nonna and Reagan cleaned up the toy room without being asked.  She didn’t however do a tiny bit of her school work that I had sent over.  Nonna asked but she refused-hopefully, she realized this afternoon that she should have done it this morning so she could have finished school a bit earlier.
• The boys both received good reports when I picked them up at school.  They played together on the playground and Anderson let Graham use one of his trains that he was playing with.  And yes, I dressed them in the same colors so they could find each other on the playground (per Anderson’s request).  Graham said that they sang lots of fun songs today, had a snack, played on the playground and colored. 
• When it was time for him to leave, he tried to take his school box back home and we almost had a meltdown when I told him to leave it there for next time.  He did have a stack of papers (similar to what Reagan would make) and clung tightly to them the whole way home.  They were all colored in orange.
• Next up was lunch at Nonna’s house and then everyone played for a few minutes until time to go.  It was time to go because Graham was sitting on the couch about to fall asleep.  When we made it home, Campbell had a nap and Graham tried and tried to sleep but couldn’t-he was so excited about spending the night with Nonna.
• In fact, when Nonna arrived to pick him up, Nonna walked in the door and Graham walked out heading to her car.  He was so ready to go.  Just a bit more school work for Reagan to finish and then it was time to make pudding (her last school thing to do) and then her and Anderson helped me make Mexican casserole for supper.
• Campbell woke up next and helped me put the baby clothes in a drawer and then took the baby bottles out of the bag for me.  She enjoyed trying to put the lids on them and even liked trying to drink out of them-maybe she liked that a bit too much.  Just a few sips of formula will cure that though.
• Robby came home and we had casserole and pudding and then the kids played.  Without Graham here tonight things were pretty calm until Reagan got in trouble and then packed her bag and told us that she was running away.  She was kidding it was quite entertaining.  Later Robby mentioned giving her away and she shouted “don’t send me to China”
• Anderson and Reagan are sleeping in the same room tonight and I think that I heard Reagan trying to sing Anderson asleep.