so sweetly blessed: First Day of Preschool! **updated with PICTURES!**

It went by with a blur...

Pulling into the parking lot I asked Emma "Are you ready?" and her reply was "Ready to meet all my new friends!!" so precious. When we walked in the front doors of the building she took off running and ran clear into her classroom. She could hardly stand still for pictures and by the time we (the whole family went:) ) left she was surrounded with about 3 or 4 little friends.

I worried all day :) Did she eat her lunch? Was she being nice and sharing? Did she nap during quiet time? Is she listening to her teacher? Does she miss playing with Jake? Does she miss ME? :) Will she hate it and not want to go back (ok, not very likely)? Who is she playing with? What is she doing? Did she fall and scrape her knee? (and sure enough she did..) I refrained several times from calling Debbi (secretary) and have her go check on her... I held it all back and patiently waited to go pick her up.

Thankfully and a bit surprisingly, she ran to greet us ( I actually thought she would cry because she had to go home!!) and was anxious to come home and see Jake, who stayed home napping with Papa Ken.

We live a little over 5 minutes from school, and about half way home we looked back to see a sound asleep little girl ;) Nope, she didn't nap during quiet time, but the teacher said she was very close! And yes, she did scrape her knee (note the gigantic band aide on her knee in her picture with her teacher), but we knew that was probable! And nope, I don't think she missed us one bit! She was busy making friends and playing, which is exactly what she should have been doing.

I am a bit mad at myself that I didn't get better pictures, but you know, I was more worried about giving my baby girl all the attention she wanted and needed on this very big and special day. Happy first day of school Princess!!

(dance recital pictures soon to come, so check back often!)