First day of preschool

Well, the big day finally arrived : Claire's first day of preschool.  Jeff and I had very mixed emotions about this day. The school we chose does a car line which means we drive up, a teacher takes her out of her car seat, and walks her to her classroom. I thought Claire would either get very scared and start to cry, or ask and beg for Mommy to come with her. She did neither of these things. Claire let the teacher unbuckle her, and with a big smile on her face, jumped out of her car seat and let the teacher help her put on her backpack. She then proceeded to walk hand in hand with the teacher to her class without even looking back! I guess she showed us! We were both so very proud of her at that moment. Mommy and Daddy were not so strong however and both shed some tears as we drove away.

When we picked Claire up 5 and a half hours later, she stood on the sidewalk waiting for us with a teacher. When she saw us drive up, her face lit up and she smiled so big! She came to me and gave me a big hug and was so happy. She said she had lots of fun at preschool but would not share many of the details with us. The only thing we found out was that she went on the yellow round thing with some girls on the playground and some boys wanted to ride on it but they had to wait until the girls were done. Oh, how I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in her class today! Our baby girl is growing up way too fast.