First Day of Preschool

Lenny's first day of preschool was today. We were both super excited. On Friday we went to the orientation and met his teachers. I really like them alot and so does Lenny. Lenny was excited because they have a Thomas table in their classroom and a computer. He also pointed out that they have a "Days of the Week", "Months of the Year", and "Weather" poster in their room similar to what we have in our playroom at home. He was proud because he knew what they were.

We were all getting loaded up in the van and Lenny jumped in and started to get in his seat. He couldn't understand why I made him get back out just to take his picture. I told him he better get used to it because I will always take a picture of him on his first day of school.



Lenny's preschool has a car line which is really awesome! It saves me an awful lot of work because I don't have to unload Brooke and Nathan and load them back up two times a day. If I could just walk them in it would be different but I have to put them in a stroller. Anyway, the car line is fast and very nice. Lenny has already memorized his car line number. It is 35. This will be really great for us on rainy or snowy days. Not so much for the people that work at the preschool though.

Saturday morning when Lenny woke up, he was very disappointed to find out that he was not going to preschool that day. It took him a little while to get over that. It was also a rainy yucky day and Dominic had to work. So I decided to do some fun things with the kids. We played hide and seek, painted, watched a movie, made a craft, made pepperoni rolls. I even let Lenny run around outside in the rain and through the rain puddles. He had a blast doing that! I would have loved it if I was a kid. Our power went out for about an hour too. We rarely lose power in our house. The last time was in 2003 when I was pregnant with Lenny and hurricane Isabel came through. We lost it for a lot longer than an hour that time.

Anyway, here are the art projects that we made that day. Lenny's monster truck tires are made out of two paper bowls so you can imagine how big it is. Also, those orange things on Lenny's truck are flames and NOT carrots like Dominic asked Lenny if they were. Yes, the flames are going in all different directions but they are still flames.


Here they are eating their popcorn and watching a movie. Okay, the movie watching lasted all of about 10 minutes but at least it was a start. As soon as the popcorn was gone--so were they.


The kids should really be tired and sleep real well tonight. After Lenny's preschool we came home for lunch and a short nap. We then headed out for a birthday party at the Playroom.

Nathan loved the ball pit. He is crazy about balls and has a million of them. Lenny came running over to me while I was watching Brooke and Nate in a moonbounce. He said that he found something that Nathan would love--a ball pit. So I took Nate over there and he did love it.


Here's a picture of Brookey in her very first nightgown that Nunny bought for her. She looks so sweet in it but we all know how ornery she is.


We got an email this evening from Lenny's preschool teacher letting all of the parents know that they had a great day today. She also mentioned all of the things that they did. I really love this preschool. The teacher is great about keeping us informed of things.

I did have to warn his teacher about Lenny and fire alarms. He is very afraid of them. When he was 2 years old and in daycare, the fire alarm went off one day while they were eating lunch and I guess Lenny was sitting next to it. It really scared him and he has been afraid of them ever since.

Last year I took him to a Halloween party and he did not want to go in the room. He cried and cried to where I thought we were going to have to leave. Finally he told me that there was a fire alarm in the room. Once I told him that it was not going to go off (and someone that worked there also told him) then he was okay and went in the room. He kept asking me if it was going to go off though.

Then a month or so ago, we were at the mall and the fire alarm went off. I didn't know what was going to happen with Lenny. I told him that's just the fire alarm and that it would go off in a minute. I then said that it wasn't that loud after all, was it. And he agreed. He was surprised that he wasn't afraid of it. I think that the daycare incident happened so long ago that he remembers it to be much louder than it is.

Anyway, while we were at orientation on Friday, they told the parents that there will be fire drills every week for the first month. I wondered how I was going to break the news to Lenny. When I first told him, he cried and said he didn't want to have a fire drill. Then I told him that it sounds just like the one at the mall. He said, "It does?" And I told him yes. So now he say's that he is okay about it. I warned his teacher though just in case.

From the Mouth of a Four Year Old

Today while we were sitting in the car line, Lenny was already out of his seat and standing next to me. I looked at him and said, "Lenny, you are so handsome." Because he just looked so darn cute and he was so excited. Then I touched his face and pushed his hair over to the side since it was a little messed up. He said, "Mommy, don't touch me or I won't be handsome anymore." Then he smiled real cute.