It really was no surprise to me, but Luke did great on his first day of 3 year old preschool!
I asked him the night before if he wanted me to walk him in or if he wanted me to drop him off and have a teacher bring him in (which is preferred by the school). He quickly answered that he wanted me to drop him off. He repeated this several times the next morning.
I was doing really well with this whole "my little boy is going to school" thing until completely out of the blue on the car ride to the preschool, Luke said, "I'm not going to cry when you drop me off Mommy". My eyes filled with tears. He was such a big boy and I really have no idea where that comment even came from since neither Wally (and I confirmed this with him) nor I ever mentioned to Luke anything about crying.
As we pulled into the parking lot, Luke actually clapped and said "There is my school!". So there we were in the drop-off line...I snapped one last picture of him, got him out of the van, and walked him around to the curb where one of the teachers greeted him, I hugged him, kissed him and told him to have a good day and that I loved him, and then the teacher took his hand, and led him inside to his classroom. He didn't even show one sign of being a little bit nervous. He just marched right on in ready for a new adventure! Such a proud Mommy I am :)
(his excited face!)
For pick up, we actually go inside, line up outside their classroom and the kids are dismissed one at a time to us. I got a big smile from Luke when he saw me, but I wouldn't say he was like dying to see me for the last 3 hours. I was sure excited to see him though. I picked him up and kissed him right away!
As is typical of Luke though, I got very little information out of him about his day. He has been this way with daycare forever and school seems to be the same. His response is always that "he played". And when I dig for specifics and ask lots of questions, I don't get too many detailed answers. Usually throughout the day or night, he will give me a little more information and the best conversations typically happen at night in his bed after we are done reading books and before the lights go out.
All went well on Thursday and he seems to really like Ms. Sandy. There is a little bit of confusion for him with our new schedule. He is still trying to understand that he only goes to school 2 days a week and that he comes home the rest of the day with me one day and the other day I drop him off at Punky's for a half day while I go into work for a bit. It will take some time to get into this new routine for all of us - I need to adjust my home life a bit with being home on Tuesdays instead of Fridays.
We are looking forward to a great first school year for Luke! I am so proud of how brave he was and can't wait to see him learn new things and make new friends!
