The Evans Family: First Week of Preschool

The time has finally come. Eli's first day of preschool was this week. We've been talking about preschool starting for almost a month now. He was sooooo ready to go back to school! He will be going the same days as last year (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) but will stay until 2:00 instead of 11:15 like last year. It makes me very sad to think that this time next year Eli will be starting kindergarten. I can already tell you I will be a basket case!

I swear he's grown a foot and matured so much over the summer. We measured him the day before he started preschool. From March to June Eli grew 1/4 inch. From June to September he grew 3/4 inch! Talk about a growth spurt the past 3 months!

Eli went right in his class room and started playing with his friends. A few of his friends from his class last year are back in his class this year. His new room is right next door to his old class (and connected by a door). So there are many familiar things to make the transition easier.

This is his teacher, Ms. Trisha. He loves her!

I think this will be a great year!

I set my alarm Wednesday morning so I would have time to get up and make his lunch. Making lunches everyday is one thing that will take some getting used to! I tried to be creative and pack a healthy lunch he would eat. I went to wake him up to get dressed. Then I remembered... he gets out early the first week so they won't be needing a lunch! Ha! All that hard work for nothing. Oh well. The weather was nice when he I picked him up from school. We decided to sit under the tree in the front yard and have a picnic (with his school lunch I had packed)! Eli thought this was a big treat!

Strawberries! Yummy yummy!

Last year when I would ask Eli what he did at school he would always say "I can't remember" or "I don't know". Now when I pick him up he talks non-stop about what happened at school. I love listening to his stories!

To make Eli seem even bigger he graduated to a booster seat in my car! He has grown out of the car seat in Chad's car so I decided to get a booster for my car and put his Britax (which he will fit in until he's 70lbs) in Chad's car. I think he was just as excited about his booster as he was to start back to school! Talk about growing up.