Lillian's FIRST Day!!

Today was my sweet Lillian's first day of 3k preschool. Tuesday was suppose to be her actual first day, but it was canceled due to the storms from the night before. I have to admit this morning I was hoping my phone would ring, and it would be her teacher telling me that the school was still without power and they wouldn't be starting until next week. But a phone call never came and after taking a million first day of school pictures at home we loaded up the car and headed to drop Lillian off. The three of us said a little prayer in the car and then I walked her into her classroom. She was a little hesitant and gave me an extra long hug when I said goodbye, but over all drop off went pretty smoothly. Of course I cried the second I got in the car; I don't know if the first day will ever get easy. When I went to pick her up she told me, "Mommy, I had so much fun. I was sad for a little bit, but I did not cry. I held my teachers hand". It made my heart so happy to know that she fun today, but I was so glad when it came time for me to pick her up. 

I saw where someone did this for their daughter's teacher and thought it was so cute. We filled this tumbler cup w/ candy and put a little note on it saying, "Have a sweet year".

 her stuff was all ready to go

 

she couldn't wait to give her teacher the little gift we had gotten her

Lillian's classroom

 John Whitten was sad that he couldn't stay w/ his big sister

her empty car seat made me sad the whole day...

*Of course I stalked her teacher down via email this afternoon to get a quick run down of how she did on her first day. This was her response:


Melissa,
She was a little sad at first but she never cried.   She sat on my lap at the door as we greeted the other kids that came in.   It's kind of hard at first because at 9:15 I leave them for 15 minutes for music but she came out of music all smiles and was happy from there on out!  She played well with the other kids and at playground time she rode the swings and  rode the tricycle some.  (She also walked around and held my hand).  We did a special handprint craft that is drying so I will send it home on Tuesday.  She is so very sweet and I made sure she felt special because she got to stay and eat lunch with me.  I must admit I do have the sweetest girls.   I had 8 children (all of the 3's) at lunch time so she had plenty of company.  I'm hoping she was okay when you picked her up.  The first day can be so confusing sometimes until they get the hang of our schedule.  
I hope your doctor appt went well and John Whitten ? will start scarfing down french fries soon!

Blessings,
Kelly