Off to School

Today we celebrated a pretty cool milestone- Collins's first day of preschool. It's hard to believe our baby is old enough to go to school, but the time has come and guess what? She did great!

Collins is enrolled one day a week at Ridge Road Baptist Church Preschool, the church right up the road from our house...

and the site of this...

Not only did we get married at this church, but Donna grew up in this church and Collins's great-grandparents were life-long members here. Pretty neat history!

The odds were stacked against a good first day of school- Collins developed cold symptoms yesterday and didn't sleep well last night. But despite a runny nose this morning, she ate some strawberry pancakes, brushed her teeth (and spit for the first time!), grabbed her new backpack and was off to school...

I was worried about the drop-off (for her and for me), but it was so fast (they practically pushed us out the door) that we didn't really have the chance to get upset (guess that's the point). From 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., I waited for the phone call to come pick her up because she was too upset/sick, but it never came.

When I went back for pick-up, her teacher Miss Susan told me she did great. She said she didn't cry once! (shocked by this). On her first day, she went on a buggy ride, played on the playground, had a blueberry snack, and learned how to do prayer hands. Her class is small (only four kids) and two of them were out today so it was just Collins and one other little boy- maybe that helped her adjust. But I thought it was a good sign that as we were leaving, Collins wiggled out of my arms and acted like she wanted to play some more. I think she is going to love preschool!