The School Bus and Preschool

 The special Hello Kitty lunchbox

 She doesn't look excited-does she?

 Her teacher is in the blue shirt.  The Korean twins, Jun and Chan are in the red shirts, Bjorn is sitting by the bookshelf and Diego is sitting with his back to me.

 Zoey is in the yellow shirt playing with Ashley.

 Would you think there was a preschool in this building?  This is the condominium tower-Ashley's preschool is on the first floor.

 Sitting at the table working on a worksheet

 Enjoying a trip to the playground

The boys have been excited all weekend about getting to ride the bus today.  We go a couple of blocks up from our house to meet the bus in the morning and they bring the boys to our house for afternoon drop-off.  Part of me won't miss the 2 hours a day that I was spending in the car-30 minutes almost each way, but part of me is sad that I won't get that extra time with the kids in the car.  We got to the stop early this morning and made sure we were at the right stop.  About 8 Brent school buses pick up in our neighborhood each morning.  Even though we were early the boys hopped right on and one of our neighbor boys had even asked to sit next to one of them. 

Since we weren't sure we were going to be in the right place we rode with Greg and our driver, Chris this morning to the bus stop.  Ashley and I just decided to ride on to the office with Greg to have a few extra minutes with him.  She immediately started asking "Can I go to preschool now?"  She wasn't dressed in what she had said that she wanted to wear and hadn't really had breakfast.  We said no that it wasn't time to go yet.  We saw the boys' bus pulling away as we drove back to our house.  By the time the driver and I got home with her, she had asked so many times that even Chris was beginning to laugh at her. 

We read books, talked to Grammy on the phone, ate some breakfast, and got dressed.  A little after 11 we went back to Greg's office so that he could join us for the first day of preschool.  It was the same with all of our kids-they could have cared less if we stayed even for a minute.  She went in with her pink Hello Kitty lunchbox and immediately sat down to play.  I had to ask for a kiss good-bye.  I was thinking that it would be more sad taking my "last one" to preschool but she was so excited that it was easy just to be excited for her.  I do have pictures but will have to post them when Greg gets home from his trip.  After we left school, Greg and I went to have a nice grown-ups only lunch-it was very nice!

According to Ashley she painted, played outside on the playground, and learned.  They talked about the letter T and she had a great time.  When I went back to pick her up I was told that they were amazed by her talking.  She told her teacher that she wanted to come back tomorrow-she doesn't understand that she only goes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  She had fun telling the boys about her own day at school when they got home too.

The boys did both arrive home and safely on the bus, just not exactly how I expected-it was on 2 different buses.  The Early Learning Center (K-2nd grade) gets out 10 minutes earlier so Ryan arrived home first, saying that he had enjoyed riding the bus and got to sit next to a friend in his class on the way home.  Scott arrived on another bus a few minutes later and said that he had had fun riding too.  A good day of firsts for everyone!