first day of school!
First Day of Preschool! We are in the Head Start Morning Program. Class is from 8am to 12pm.
We had a hard time getting up this morning, need to make more time to wake up, go potty, and get dressed. I put them in the top they wear the next morning for bed like I do for church and that helps.
Jenna was really wanting to go back to sleep so she just didn't want to go, didn't want to talk to the teacher, but once she had some breakfast, she was fine. But she just wasn't herself because she was tired and not feeling well.
Jacob was the one who was really excited. He ate a lot of breakfast. All he wanted to do all day was play with the trucks inside and the bikes outside. He's feeling better than Jenna.
The teacher does a healthcheck every morning. Looks at hands, noses, throats, and hair. She gave them the go ahead. I prepared though, by wiping up the noses and crusties with wipes in the car.
They sit down to breakfast first thing, they are taught to clear their own dishes and throw away their own garbage. They brush teeth - toothbrushes provided. Then they have freeplay until the teacher sits them down for circle time. I left during freeplay because Jenna was still kind of sluggish and clingy.
I told them that they were going to be in school until after lunch and then I'll pick them up. They were totally fine with that. I would recommend to any new parents to get the kids used to being in a classroom environment early on to practice like church or library lap sit or gym class. Its only an hour or so at first. This was the first extended time they were without someone they know.
We had an hour of downtime at home before going to the doctor. Dr Emily is so great. She is so encouraging to the mother and handles the kids well.
She says leave the boy alone to use the potty when he is ready to do it. I will never again think there's something wrong with the mother when I see a child that seems too old to wear diapers. Well, instead of buying breakfast and lunch food, I'll be buying diapers.
Even with the colds, the kids are healthy as can be. Right on track in height and weight. Jacob wouldn't cooperate so we got inaccurate weight on him. I've weighed him recently and he's still a pound or two less than Jenna. She's just big and healthy. She's ever so slightly shorter than Jacob. Dr Emily calls him a bean stalk.
We had to get blood drawn and that was a cinch. Neither of them flinched. The nurses were so relieved to find good veins. Jenna is just like me - calm through the hard part then breaks down after the trauma. After they put the bandaid on, she just let it go... all the way to the car. I gave them juice and they both just crashed on the way home. Jenna laid down and slept all the way to dinner time.
Friday afternoon we have a WIC appointment. No more worries about milk, cheese, eggs, cereal, juice. If only they have a diaper voucher. I'm wishing my cloth diapers still fit. He uses the underwear, just chooses to mess in them. I just don't know what his deal is. Why he is choosing to refuse the potty. I've asked, I've reasoned it out. Nothing makes sense. He just doesn't want to do it.