Bode’s First Day of Preschool

For the third year… Let’s pretend this is being posted the end of August, 2013.

Bode was so excited to start school! He missed the first week because we were in Washington helping the Thurgood's. He was SO over the moon to start up. He loved his teacher, Miss Hollie.

He was too anxious to get walking down the street where it was to let me take many pictures. I somehow managed to take a ton anyway! Owen had to be in one too, of course.

I just love Bode so much and his eagerness to go to school. His teacher loved him and said he was a very good student. She said he was very attentive and participated in everything, and was a very good example to others. Good job Bode!

Bode’s First Day of Preschool (2nd year)

Bode was SO excited to start school this year. He adores Miss Hollie and talked about going to school for at least 2 weeks before the morning actually came. We had a preschool open house the week before and that got him so geared up.
Last year I remember I had a 6 day old that slept in until 9-10am. Those days are LONG gone and I miss them, but preschool was very different last year. I was always just barely getting up and had to rush to get Bode ready and fed and off to school by 9:30.
This year the boys are up by 7am and Bode goes nuts asking me is it time for school to start yet. The first day Bode was ready to go by 8! He sat around, watched TV, colored.. and finally he was like MOM can we PLEASE just go! It was around 8:45 that I took him outside to play a bit. I thought I better get some pictures… some meaning a ton. We had a good 30 minutes playing around and me snapping pictures. He ended up being 15 minutes early to school. I was getting sick of him begging. It’s about a 2 min walk and once we got there he was really shy about going in. He wouldn't open the door and when I asked for a picture with his teacher he wouldn’t even look at me! SO strange considering how pumped up he was about it. He had a blast and has been loving it every preschool day since. Such a big kid now!

Preschool Grad

Bode graduated preschool a few weeks ago and he misses it so much! He absolutely loved his teacher, Miss Hollie. She was so great with him and he learned so much! His teacher doesn’t do anything big for graduation, so parents don’t even go. The class before their last one she threw all the kids a water party, and Bode had so much fun. He is still playing with the squirter she gave them all. For the last day she put on a small awards ceremony type of a thing just for the kids. Bode’s award was for being the most helpful. I talked to Miss Hollie and she told me that Bode was one of her favorite students. She said he is always cheerful, willing to participate, and very well behaved. I was shocked to hear that. I really figured he would be like ADD kid or something. I’m so proud of my Bode boy!

I tried to get a group shot and I’m just going to post them all because it’s pretty funny. She had given the students a little box of goodies to open at home and Bode was too busy trying to bust open that thing to pay any attention to me.

Preschool

Bode technically isn’t old enough for preschool yet. He barely misses the deadline. I found a teacher right down the street from me who would take him anyway. We talked up school and he was pretty excited about it! Clint took him to the open house before school started and he seemed to have a really fun time. Clint said he was super happy and excited about school. The morning of he was kind of grumpy. I think he knew what was coming because he started saying, “Stay one minute?” I reassured him I would stay for one minute and that he was going to have so much fun. He had to color a picture of himself and also a paper of ABCs so we grabbed his homework and I snapped some pics before we walked over. He wasn’t very happy or excited! :(

His little friend Gabe was so excited for school. He was all smiles getting ready to walk in and Bode was so sad. Gabe tried to put his arm around Bode for some pictures and Bode did not like that at all.

 

He ran up the stairs to where preschool was but as soon as we got up there he had to sit on my lap. He didn’t want to play with the toys or anything. I could tell we were in for it. After like 10 minutes of him whining for me not to leave and finally a full blown cry fest, his teacher grabbed him so I could leave. He was NOT happy!! I felt so guilty leaving him like that. I told Miss Holly to call me if he didn’t calm down, but that I thought it wouldn’t last long. I never got a call, thank heavens. I was going to run to the grocery store but I didn’t even go because I was worried I might just get a call.

He came out of there so happy! His teacher gave him a bag and he thought that was the neatest thing. His teacher said he only cried for a few minutes and he was fine after that. When I asked him what he did at school he said, “We did ABCs and I showed my picture.” That’s all I could get from him, but my neighbor said all Gabe talked about was parachutes. SO maybe they played with parachutes! Who knows. He talked about school for the rest of the day! I think he had a really fun time.

I wanted to get a picture with him and his teacher. She asked if he wanted to sit on her lap and he did! I was shocked. I think he really likes her.

Here is a picture of him coming home. Not very interesting, but his bum is so stinkin’ cute!

Today was day 2 for school and he seemed hesitant! He kept telling me I needed to stay for one minute. I ended up staying for about 5 or 10. When he walked in the teacher had play dough for all the kids. Bode LOVES play dough and so he was pretty happy. When I felt like it was time to go he gave me a kiss and a hug and off I was. Much smoother!!! I’m so happy for preschool and I think it will be really good for Bode. It’ll be nice for me to catch a break Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30-12:00 too. :)