Well, the boys are off to their first day of preschool/daycare. They went late today because they were up late last night. Breakfast was hurried and they weren't very happy. They both were in tears before we left the house and when we got there Jonathan burst into tears and cried until we got into the 4 yr old room and met their teacher, Miss Bev.
They were given a tour of the room. They get cards with their names on them and then they pick where they want to play and they stick the cards with the velcro on the wall in that area. The idea being that the names on the wall in section of the room are the children responsible for cleaning up that area when the time comes. Nice idea, we'll see how it works out. Our boys are horrible about cleaning up for us, hopefully they will do better in school.
We are thinking their biggest challenge will be meals. They get breakfast, lunch and snack at school and the school supplies them. Jonathan is not happy they do not serve any peanut products at all. Today will thrill Matthew because lunch is cheeseburgers. Yesterday's lunch was tuna salad with peas. Good thing they started today! We hope they will learn to eat some new things watching the other kids.
Matthew is excited because there is another Matthew in the class so he is Matthew K. in school on his name tag, his cubby, his cot, his mailbox and play card. Anyone want to place a bet on how long before Jonathan asks for a K on his things too??
We did send them in different shirts today to help the teachers. Can't wait to see how they did at the end of the day when we pick them up. Bad mom that I am, we forgot to take a camera but it probably wouldn't have been a good idea anyway. By the time we left they were playing happily and didn't even turn to watch us go. We walked by outside a bit later when we left the church and saw them through the window. Matthew waved happily and pointed us out to Jonathan who looked a bit sad and wouldn't wave but was totally fine. I think they are going to love it there.
In other news, they had a few last adventures this week. They spent Monday night at Grandma and Papa's and the weather was cruddy but they had some fun. Tuesday they went to Papa's cousin's farm and picked blueberries, corn and tomatoes. They loved that.
Yesterday they went to the circus here in town. They set up the tents with help from the elephants and it's a wonderful little circus. Luckily, they went to the 4:30 show because the night show had a horrible thunderstorm and the boys would have been terrified.
We drove them down to the lake to see the storm. It was a bit more storm than we bargained for and probably not such a good idea after all but they wouldn't have gone to bed during it anyway. We saw some awesome lightning.
That's about it for now. Time to settle back into a regular routine and settle things back into a normal schedule after a busy summer. We did join the Y and the boys are signed up for more swim lessons this fall and an intro to soccer class where they learn how to play the game.
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