First First Day of School

Today was Charlotte's first First Day of School.  She's actually going to Mother's Morning Out one morning a week but I'm referring to it as school because Mother's Morning Out is a long name.  She goes from 8:30 until around noon on Wednesday's and today was the first day.

I had to get her up a few minutes early (7:45) in order to eat breakfast and get to school on time. 

After breakfast we got Charlotte dressed and then I took some pictures outside really quickly.  It was kind of overcast but I think I still got some sweet pictures.  Memma found the perfect outfit for the first day of school on Monday! It's got Mary and her little lamb's on it which is perfect because Charlotte is in the Lambs class!

Then we hopped in the car and were off to school! Charlotte was excited and kept saying "Teacher" on the way there. 

She cried when I dropped her off but the school has monitor's at the front desk and camera's in each classroom so I was able to watch on the monitor until I saw her get down and start playing.  Then I headed off to brunch with Kelly and Caroline!  I'm so grateful that they could meet me -- it helped leaving knowing that she wasn't crying anymore and that I had something fun to go do!  And, to my surprise, I didn't cry a bit!

I went to pick C up a little early since it was her first day and I knew that she would be exhausted.  Her teachers told me that she didn't cry the entire time that she was there once she initially got calmed down and her report from the day said that she was happy and played with her friends.  They were doing bubbles when I got there so I know Charlotte enjoyed that! She also ate pretty well during snack time and lunch so overall it was a very successful day!  She did cry for a second when I got there but it might have just been because she had just fallen down.  Once we started leaving she was happy and pointed out the animals on the wall to me.  She wanted to get down and walk as soon as we got outside which is when I snapped these pictures.  You can see a tear still on her face in the first picture but I promise she only cried for a second!

When we got to the car I had her first first day of school present for her!  I plan on continuing this tradition as long as she's in school!  She couldn't wait to open it and was super excited about the Elmo camera!  She was exhausted though and as soon as I got the car going she started hugging her Elmo doll and sucking her thumb.  She told me "No Nap" when we got home and I told her she was going to take a nap but she's currently been down for an hour and a half and she has yet to move from how I put her down!

What a great start to Charlotte's school career.  Hopefully she'll learn to play well with others and spend some time away from Jason and I this year.  I know that she'll do great in school and will love hanging out with her friends and it was very nice to go to the grocery store by myself this morning!