Busy, busy bee

This past week was Vacation Bible School at our church.  I was able to volunteer on Monday and Tuesday evening. VBS is for kids 4 and older but since I was helping I was able to bring Claire along and let her be in the preschool class of 4 year olds. The first night I was in her group with her and I tried to stay back as much as possible to let her do her thing. I was certain she would not want to go by herself on Tuesday evening since I had to help in the toddler room. She told me she wanted to go back even if I couldn't be with her. To my surprise, Claire did amazing. I dropped her off and she walked right in. I peeked on her a few times during the 2.5 hours and every time I peeked, she was interacting with the other kids and engaging in the activities. This made me so very proud and happy. Claire has always been very shy so this was great to see. It makes me so happy and so sad at the same time. My little girl is becoming more independent. I guess this was a good preview of what preschool will be like...harder for me than for her!