Preschool is Finally Here!

Hazel has been looking forward to starting preschool since we signed her up in the spring. And finally the big day is here!

It was such a big day for her. The calendar told us that today was "Red Day" so we went out to find a red "First Day of School" dress. Hazel loved it!

She has to wear a name tag to make it easy for her teacher to learn her name. And she was so excited to finally get to use the backpack that Aunt Stephanie gave her as a birthday present last year.

Momma wasn't technically supposed to get out of the car at the drop-off. Hazel's teacher got her out of the car, but I jumped out real quick to snag a photo. Naughty Momma.

Lisey watched Mrs. Duley get Hazel out of the car...

...and it slowly dawned on her that she wasn't going to get to go with Hazel...

...and then we drove off and left Hazel at school without Lisey!

But then Momma explained that we were going to get to spend all morning together just the two of us, going to the grocery store and sharing snack time together, and Lisey thought that might just be ok.

And even though we had a great time together, Lisey couldn't wait to go pick up Hazel. Here she is waiting for Hazel to come out with her class.

Hazel was responsible for bringing in the drinks for snack-time today, and that meant that she got to be line-leader. Do you see her up there at the front of the line, behind the teacher?

As soon as Lisey saw Hazel come out with her class, she went running up to her and stood next to her until Mrs. Duley released Hazel to Momma.

Hazel said she had a great day! From what I could gather, she played with the cars, walked on the balance beam, showed pictures of our family at show-and-tell, set the table for snack-time, sat on a pink circle for story-time, played dress-up with another little girl named Macy, played in the sandbox on the playground and got to be line-leader all day. She loves school, she says, and wishes she could be there forever.