Today was Shecklet #4’s Christmas program at school. The kids sang an assortment of songs, ending with Happy Birthday to Jesus. They did a great job!
It’s hard to believe our run of preschool Christmas programs has come to an end. ❤️ I’m going to miss these events, but I look forward to seeing what this little girl does in elementary school!
Shecklet #4 is running a low-grade temp today 🙁 I kept her home from school and was letting her watch some PBS Kids. She shut it off and fell asleep on the couch. My poor baby!
Shecklet #4 sang her heart out at her preschool Christmas program this morning. The teachers do such a great job teaching hem the songs and actions to go along with each one. It was so fun to watch her up on he risers – no stage fright for her! She did great!
Shecklet #3’s preschool is located on Jake’s way to work. On most school days, he has been dropping her off a bit early so Shecklet #4 and I don’t have to make two round-trips in a three-hour period. (On a side note, it has been fun to have some one-on-one time with #4.) While we were eating lunch today, #3 started talking about “scarecrow.” It took me a few seconds to realize that she was talking about “Care Crew” – the name of the before-school care she’s been going to.
We did happen to see a scarecrow in a field last week, so perhaps the similarly sounding words just got a bit mixed up. Either way, it was pretty funny 🙂
10/2/14 edited to add: this doesn’t seem to be a once or twice occurrence. #3 lovingly refers to her before preschool time as going to “scarecrow.”
The kids and I stopped at the park on the way home from picking Nolan up from preschool this afternoon. The air was crisp and the sun was shining – it was a beautiful fall afternoon.
The boys are going to preschool in the afternoon this year. Nolan will go every day and Lincoln on Mondays & Wednesdays. I’m still trying to get my head around what that is going to be like. My house has been full of noise and hustle & bustle for so many years that it really will be strange to have complete quiet for 2 1/2 hours, 2 days a week. (Little miss will be napping while her brothers are at school.)
Our day began with our 1st day of school breakfast…orange rolls & scrambled eggs. I’m not sure what Lincoln is doing here in the photo…
After eating, we had a few last minute (seriously, last minute) things to accomplish before the 1pm preschool start. First stop was CVS for 1 hour prints to complete the boys’ “Spotlight on me” sheets. While our photos were being processed, we began the great backpack search. Lincoln requested a Transformers backpack. We looked for one last week only to find that the entire backpack wall display at Target was empty. I couldn’t believe it. Completely bare. That’ll teach me to leave backpack shopping until the week before class starts.) This morning, Toys R Us came to the rescue. We walked in and there it was…the last Bumblebee Transformers backpack. And it was clearance priced! For once, it payed to procrastinate. With backpack in hand, we spent time wandering the store (to kill time before our photo pick-up.) The boys had fun going up and down the aisles and trying out the toy displays. We could have stayed in the train aisle all morning.
We picked up our 4 pictures and headed home for lunch. Then, with full bellies, we put on new school shoes and went outside for the “1st day” pictures on the steps.
I love these guys so much! They make me laugh multiple times every day.
Lincoln wanted to pose next to Ingrid before we loaded into the truck.
We arrived at school and took one more “1st” picture. It’s going to be a great year!
P.S. Look how much these two have grown from last year’s 1st day!
It seems I need to do a better job at looking at the kids’ clothes before they head off to school. I went downstairs this morning with Lincoln and Ingrid and told Nolan to get himself dressed. (He sometimes dawdles a bit too long if I wait for him, so when I leave the room and he generally gets dressed faster.) Well, I didn’t even think to look closely at what he was wearing. I just assumed that since his shirt looked fine, everything else was in order. Wrong. I think he was going for the Kris Kross look today. His preschool teacher had to point out to me that his pants were on backwards. I guess they were roomy enough that they didn’t bother him. It’s nice to know he’s not the first to have done this at school 🙂
I made the boys orange rolls (a 1st day tradition I started last year with Nolan)
and we took the token front step and church sign photos. Shuttling between dropping Nolan off and getting Lincoln to ECFE is going to be a bit crazy, but I think we can make it work. I’m looking forward to seeing how much they both grow this year.
Our visit to the big red store today included a trip to the school supply section. (I’m always looking for deals on Post-it notes since I go through so many of them.) While we were shopping, we rolled past the backpack aisle. Nolan eyed up a Toy Story backpack, so Lincoln, likewise, found one too. Once we were home, the two of them modeled their new bags before promptly finding all sorts of things to load into them.
Today was Nolan’s last day of preschool. I can hardly believe his first year of school is now finished. He has grown and changed so much over the school year. We are so proud of all that he has learned, tried, and done. I know the success of this past year is due in large part to the wonderful teachers he had. He came home with a DVD full of pictures from the year along with a memory book – such a wonderful way to get a snapshot of the year (no pun intended :))
In the evening, Jake decided to have the boys plant our garden. Once again, we’re giving it a go. We planted corn, sunflowers, cucumbers, spinach, peppers, tomatoes & pumpkins. We’ll see what pops up (and what we end up being able to eat!)