Big day yesterday!
Was Jonah's first day in a new class at school. I recognize at least one little boy from the summer class. But they're ALL boys (except on Thursday there's one girl). As it turned out, one of the teachers we met last week isn't going to be there indefinitely (her husband is very sick). So, there was a new teacher, plus a substitute that I remembered from Jonah's class in the spring. I dropped him off without incident, even though there was another boy that broke into tears as his daddy left.
During the day, I heard the great news, ALEP 2011!!!!! I'm so excited!
I spent most of the day fighting the urge to plan/start on costumes (not for ALEP, but for the various other costumed events coming up) and starting on planning and gathering things for our trip to Florida on Thursday (camping on St. Joseph's Peninsula through Sunday, taking a break from packing and cleaning to write this).
When I went to pick Jonah up, they had exciting news, he peed in the potty!! That's something he's not done at home yet, but I guess seeing several other boys do it, he wanted to as well. Peer pressure might be a great thing in the realm of potty training. I'm going to really jump into it when we get back from our trip to see if we can get some more consistency.
Also, the lady that had been a substitute in his class before just went on and on about how much he's grown up and how much more mature and knowledgeable he seems to be from just a couple of months ago. She assumed I had been really working with him over the summer. Well, I have worked a bit recently on the numbers, shapes and letters (which she mentioned seemed much better). But just in general, I think he's gotten better at communicating and I don't know if it's from him being home with me for a month where I've got no one to talk to but him (so he's gotten more conversational and started enunciating better and speaking more clearly) or if it's just something that's happened organically. My mother-in-law remarked on that when he stayed with them a couple of weeks ago as well (how much more he's talking, conversationally, rather than broken sentences and random words that you may or may not understand). She seemed just really enthusiastic with how well he was doing.
One thing though, I forgot to pack Giraffie. I even relabeled him for school yesterday morning, but Jonah then wanted to play with him and he didn't make it into the backpack before we left the house. So, they had a little bit of trouble getting him to settle for a nap, but he still slept fine without him (which he's done a few times before).
I'm excited about this year at preschool. It seems like they're doing more teaching rather than babysitting at this age. That was something I was kind of disappointed in with this school before, so my attitude has really changed all of a sudden. They just must not work with the younger ones until they're almost 3.
Chris is making fun of me for packing my pirate gear to get pictures on the beach. He called me a huge nerd. How can pirates be nerds, I ask!? C'mon, what's the point of putting together the costumes if you're not going to wear them, pose for pictures and play around a little with them? I'm excited, even if he is a stick in the mud about it. :P And yes, I'm totally copying jkg_vader, with this. ;)
During the day, I heard the great news, ALEP 2011!!!!! I'm so excited!
I spent most of the day fighting the urge to plan/start on costumes (not for ALEP, but for the various other costumed events coming up) and starting on planning and gathering things for our trip to Florida on Thursday (camping on St. Joseph's Peninsula through Sunday, taking a break from packing and cleaning to write this).
When I went to pick Jonah up, they had exciting news, he peed in the potty!! That's something he's not done at home yet, but I guess seeing several other boys do it, he wanted to as well. Peer pressure might be a great thing in the realm of potty training. I'm going to really jump into it when we get back from our trip to see if we can get some more consistency.
Also, the lady that had been a substitute in his class before just went on and on about how much he's grown up and how much more mature and knowledgeable he seems to be from just a couple of months ago. She assumed I had been really working with him over the summer. Well, I have worked a bit recently on the numbers, shapes and letters (which she mentioned seemed much better). But just in general, I think he's gotten better at communicating and I don't know if it's from him being home with me for a month where I've got no one to talk to but him (so he's gotten more conversational and started enunciating better and speaking more clearly) or if it's just something that's happened organically. My mother-in-law remarked on that when he stayed with them a couple of weeks ago as well (how much more he's talking, conversationally, rather than broken sentences and random words that you may or may not understand). She seemed just really enthusiastic with how well he was doing.
One thing though, I forgot to pack Giraffie. I even relabeled him for school yesterday morning, but Jonah then wanted to play with him and he didn't make it into the backpack before we left the house. So, they had a little bit of trouble getting him to settle for a nap, but he still slept fine without him (which he's done a few times before).
I'm excited about this year at preschool. It seems like they're doing more teaching rather than babysitting at this age. That was something I was kind of disappointed in with this school before, so my attitude has really changed all of a sudden. They just must not work with the younger ones until they're almost 3.
Chris is making fun of me for packing my pirate gear to get pictures on the beach. He called me a huge nerd. How can pirates be nerds, I ask!? C'mon, what's the point of putting together the costumes if you're not going to wear them, pose for pictures and play around a little with them? I'm excited, even if he is a stick in the mud about it. :P And yes, I'm totally copying jkg_vader, with this. ;)