It's Elliot's Turn

Finally, my poor boy who is going to be 3.5 years old this fall, who is more than ready for preschool and has been dying to go since January of this year is finally starting. He went this summer for a week and fell in love and didn't want to stop so I was really looking forward to this fall. Unfortunately our school only offers a 2 day a week program for 3 year olds even though I would be more than happy to have him in school 3x a week. So every Tuesday and Thursday this fall you can find my little one in preschool.

I liked this whole warm up to preschool system when Erik was entering preschool, but I have to admit with having a child so ready to go to school this drawn out process of "meet the teacher," "being in the classroom a half day," and then a "half day by themselves" is a little drawn out for me. I already know Elliot's teachers, I know all about the systems and process of the preschool and we're just ready to go. Bring it on already!!

So just as Erik did, here is Elliot's first day of preschool pictures. His first official full day is September 6th, but for our purposes we'll call Meet the Teacher day his first. He did wear his first day of school outfit. It was a little anti-climatic for us. There was no daddy, no Erik, no one else to share this moment with us. Not sure if Elliot noticed, but I did.

When we got there Elliot instantly went for the playdough and made a "decoration." I have a strong feeling Elliot is going to be one of the oldest and way more advanced in his class. He is a second sibling and older 3. In addition he is already moving from cooperative play to interactive play with his current friends. So I have mixed feelings. I like that fact that in his class he could be the leader and "boss" and have his own space since Erik controls most of his life. But also I want him to have kids his age to play with and form future friendship with. Mostly I am worried because Elliot doesn't have any friends like Erik did when he entered preschool, but I am sure he will be fine. Also in the back of my head I think if we went to the other local preschool he would have 4 close friends in his class and it would be so smooth for him. Such is life I guess.

 

Then of course he went for the cars and trains. I was impressed because the trains didn't connect, but he mechanically figured out how to make it work by pushing and some weird combining. Elliot is definitely engineer minded at this age.

He also drew a rocket ship drawing. All in all a great introduction to preschool.

He even played in the yard for a few minutes and refused to leave. I knew all the mom's in the play yard ironically, but none of them are kids Elliot knows well. We'll find our place this year...