Kindergarten Baby

Eli started school on August 4th. He was pretty excited about it...if you asked him on the right day.

He was very excited about it when I picked him up but by the evening he had determined that school was boring.

Everyday he asks if he has to go to school today and everyday when I pick him up he's happy and excited and had a great time.

He has made a few friends and likes his teacher. I'm going to be volunteering in his classroom on Tuesdays. I think this will be a successful year!

The First REAL Day of Preschool

Today was Eli's first real day of preschool He got to wear his new clothes and take his cool new backpack and he was pretty excited. I wasn't really excited though! I didn't sleep all night and I am a little emotional today. I am the kind of mom (well maybe all moms are like this) that doesn't really like these milestones. I miss Eli when he's not around and even though I like that he's growing up I wish that he could stay a little boy forever. If I could make myself invisible I'd follow him around everywhere then I wouldn't mind him growing up so much.

He did look really cute walking to school.

When he saw that backpack he said "I don't need a suitcase, huh mom?" that means "I really want that but I think you are going to say no." I showed him how you can wheel it or put it on your back like a backpack and he loved it!

Man this is making me miss him! I can get him in 40 minutes :)

Eli at school

Eli had his "first" day of school. It was just an open house where the parents could stay with the kids and let them get use to the classroom and the teacher. We did a craft and had a snack and Eli made sure that every other child in the room knew that they needed to share.

This is Eli's picture that he made. After we made this he said that he was going to hang it up and trick his dad. So I warned Stewart that he needed to think that the picture was Eli. When Stewart came home Eli hurried and hid. Stewart talked to the picture then Eli jumped out to scare Stewart. Eli thinks that he is pretty tricky!

School Days

Eli is going to go to PRESCHOOL! He has been on a waiting list all summer and I never heard anything until Tuesday. When I found out that he'd got in I was so excited because Eli has put on his backpack many many times and said "bye Mom I'm going to school." Then he'd walk out the door like he really was going to school.


***Here he is ready for anything!***




So we went to the school Wednesday to register him and I really thought he'd be so excited but I was WRONG! On the way over there I told him that he was going to go to school and he said "I'm not big yet." and "I'm getting nervous about this." I told him that this was preschool and it was for little boys and all those "mom things" that you can say but he wasn't having it! Well we got there and he wouldn't look at anyone and kept telling me that he was "shy of those people." After about 5 minutes he relaxed and by the time I was ready to leave he wasn't. All-in-all I think that Eli will really like preschool but I am happy that he's not ready to leave me yet!