First Day of Preschool

Rachel actually couldn't go to her first "official" day of preschool because she woke up in the middle of the night with some weird mild form of croup.  I took her to the urgent care at 2a and by the time I got there, the AC in the car had already calmed it down a lot.  Luckily, since we do this often, they gave us the steroid she needed and the rest of the night and subsequent days went fine - no major coughing fits and it wasn't even coupled with a cold.  Like I said, it was mild and different than other times she's had it.

So two days later was her REAL first day of preschool and she was SO excited.  She woke up way too early - like 5:30a (when she went to bed at 8:30p the night before) and got all dressed and could hardly wait to go.  We carpool with a friend in the ward - she takes them to preschool and I pick up the girls.  Rachel already knows 4 kids in her class of 10 (all from the ward).  Her teacher's name is Miss Carole (last name is Billings), and she is going to be wonderful (she seems strict enough and nice enough all at the same time).  We originally started with a miniature princess backpack, but when she found out that she'd have to bend her papers to get them to fit, that just wasn't going to work.  So she upgraded to a full size backpack and I love that it takes up half her body height!  She loved preschool and was good about telling me all about it.

While she was gone, I was hoping to be super productive but I was just sort of wandering and waiting for it to be time to go pick her up.  I guess I was just nervous for her and couldn't focus on too much of anything.  Funny mom.

This was the least silly smile I got!

"Bye, big sister!" - in just a diaper and his U of Chicago shirt :)