Giddy Up!

This year, Charlotte is in the Pony class for Mother's Morning Out, and she couldn't have been more excited to go back to school.  She has the same sweet teachers this year as last and had so much fun meeting her new classmates the week before school started.  She woke up on the first day of school and asked if she was going to gymnastics.  When I told her that she was going to school she got so excited and asked if she could go right then!  

I try to dress her in an outfit that matches her class name for the first day of school and had the hardest time finding something cute with a horse on it.  So I ended up asking Hillary at Mint Julep Monograms if she had anything and she found an adorable horse applique for me and put together such a great shirt for Charlotte.  I was anticipating a little bit of resistance to wear it this morning since Charlotte has been in a big dress mode for the past few months but as soon as I showed it to her she couldn't wait to get it on! 

Once we got her dressed we headed downstairs for some first day of school grits but Charlotte could only get through half the bowl before she was telling me she was done and ready to get to school.  I told her that we had to take pictures first and so she grabbed Priss and headed out front to let me snap away.  She wasn't the most cooperative with the pictures, but I did get some that I loved!

As soon as she could corral me, we were out the door and on our way to school.  I was a little nervous about drop off since it had been a while since she'd been and she wasn't handling being left that great right before school got out in the spring but I hoped that it would go good when she got out of the car and posed for a picture!

She walked right into the building (holding my hand, of course) and walked straight into her classroom without looking back.  Her teachers had some balls out on one of the tables and she immediately found a small pink fuzzy fuzzy ball like hers at home, picked it up, went and got a book from the bookshelf, and sat herself down in a little rocker and started "reading" to herself.  She didn't even bat an eye when I told her bye!  

The ease of the drop off honestly made me a little nervous that it had been too easy and that the rest of the day wouldn't go as great!  But when I got there to pick her up her teachers said that she had a great day and had NO potty accidents (which was my biggest fear).  I couldn't believe that her first day went so great!  I had promised her a pink milkshake if she didn't have an accident at school and thankfully I believed in her enough to have already gotten one and have it waiting in the car.  We headed out to get her milkshake and her first day of school present!

A new lunchbox and a book might not sound like great presents to some kids, but for mine any bag and any book are HUGE treats!

Charlotte also loved her "pearls"

And Mickey and Princess stickers are always a hit!

I am so thankful for such sweet teachers in such a great school that Charlotte loves.  It makes it so much easier to leave her twice a week knowing that she is being so well taken care of!  And it doesn't hurt that she loves it too!

I enjoyed her first day of school also.  I had kind of forgotten how nice school days were and enjoyed running some errands, seeing some friends, and getting a shower without the monitor being on!  Too bad I only have five more school days (as of the first day of school!) before I'll have another little one with me even when Charlotte is in school!  I'm going to have to use my limited days as much as I can!

And a funny note about Charlotte's class.  It's made up of nine kids, five girls and four boys.  When we chose Charlotte's name we wanted something that meant something to our family, was pretty classic and traditional, but was also a little different in our area so that she wouldn't always have to add her last initial to the end of her name (being Jason and Jennifer growing up that was always the case with us!).  So we chose Charlotte and knew of NO OTHER Charlotte's.  However, out of the five girls in her class, THREE of them have the first name Charlotte!  I couldn't believe it when her teachers told me that!  One of the girls goes by her middle name but there are two Charlotte's who go by Charlotte!  As of right now they're trying to call the other Charlotte by her name including her middle name because she goes by that some, but they might just move them to last initials if that doesn't work.  How funny is it that we thought we had come up with such an original name but it ended up being really popular the year she was born!