breaking news!

obviously, i'm months behind - i've missed telling you all about tea parties and grandma visits and hysterical conversations we've had with our absolutely brilliant daughter. and i do intend to go back and fill you all in, but as for today, we've got some breaking news...


Molly started preschool!

Monday, May 3 was her very first day at the Montessori House of St. Johns. we had originally thought she would start in the fall, but a spot opened up and we jumped at it. she will go three mornings a week for a while, slowly building to five a week around the time she turns 3. we love the school and the program (Zero was a Montessori baby, and look how good he turned out!), we really love the teacher, it's less than a mile from our house and a perfect bike ride. we couldn't be happier! (of course, we're both still complete nervous wrecks about the whole thing, our little girl is growing up too fast!)

above is Molly all ready to go!

school starts at 8:30, Molly used to rarely get up before 8:00, so we've been setting alarms and trying to get up earlier the past couple weeks. we had a rough night, but we did manage to get up on time and we got dressed, got her lunch all packed into her new lunch box, put it into the back of the Burley, got our helmets on and headed off to our first day of school! i took the day off of work, so Daddy and i could both see her to school. to the left is Daddy and Molly riding down the street.

below and to the right you can see Molly bee-lining it up to the school with rain boots in hand. when we got inside, they showed us Molly's spot. she has her own little box for things, she has a place to hang her coat and put her shoes, and one nice little boy showed her where to put her lunchbox. when we came in teacher Megan was reading books to everyone and it was hard to get Molly to concentrate on anything other than going over to hear the stories. it's funny, because just the night before when we were talking about school (and reading for the umpteenth time her current favorite before bed book, Wow School - thank you Angela!) Molly told us she was going to go into school and say "Hello teacher Megan, we should read some books." and teacher Megan would say, "Oh yes Molly, I will read some stories!" and it pretty much happened just that way. we sat for a while and eventually we tried to get her attention and wave goodbye and she was kinda like, "yeah, ok, see ya...i've got stories to listen to!" so off we went.

Zero and i had no idea what to do with ourselves, so we treated ourselves to breakfast out and watched the first half of one of my favorite movies, The Right Stuff. mostly we just watched the clock for it to be time to go back and pick her up. we're pretty pathetic! :)

when we went to pick her up, she was putting on her shoes to go outside and play. we're picking her up a bit early to begin with, so we can be sure she gets her afternoon nap (we've had a couple days recently of her going without a nap...it isn't pretty). i spoke with her teacher who said she did great. about an hour after we left she realized we were gone and became upset and went to the door. but Megan said she was easily redirected and enjoyed the library (of course!), cleaning the chalk board (lots of water involved!), group games (especially when they all sang "Roll Over", which she went on to sing all night long!) and painting. above to the left is Molly's first day of school work of art!

she went again today, and will go on Thursdays too. i hope she loves it. i hope she makes wonderful friends, and explores all sorts of new things, and that this starts a lifetime love of learning. i also hope she stops growing up so dang fast!


love to everyone from our little schoolgirl!