Zoe's first day of preschool at her new school Arbutus Grove children's center was a bit rough... Perhaps harder on me than her. We got to school at 9... We took a self guided tour... She started clinging to me hard... Both arms wrapped around min arm... We finally saw everything and went to her classroom.. She watched from a tight bundle in my arms ... I gave her a silver heart locket and told her if she ever missed me just to hold on to it. We also repeated our new mantra from llama llama red pajama..."mama llama is always near, even if she isn't right here"
I finally decided it wasn't going to get any better, so I got up to go.. They took her to the window to say goodbye.. It was awful... She was staring out the window... Not really looking at me.. It was like the look that the cat gives on Shrek... I cried for an hour... Then went to a meeting...came back and noticed that I missed two calls.. Redialed and it was her school. Of course I assumed the worst.. Started grabbing my jacket, purse keys, and it was Cindy her teacher.. Calling to say although Zoe sat by herself on the carpet she did join in shortly and all was going well. Zoe was happy when I picked her up.. She had a great day. Her favorite part of her day was playing outside.
This morning we had to wake her up at 9 ... She didn't sleep well last night.. So she was sleeping in. Generally I hate waking her up and almost never do, but she woke up easily, was happy to go to school.. We both dropped her off and she was happy to be going to school. Day two went seamlessly.
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