First Day of School

Jake is back at Westwood Baptist Church for their Mother's Day Out program. He will go Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday's from 9:00-1:00. He is in Mrs. Joyce's 3K Class. He has been so excited to start back to Westwood and cried to go to his "other school" each morning I dropped him off at his summer daycare. Finally the time had come! The week before school started, they had a meet you teacher one-on-one. Jake was so excited as we turned into the church parking lot and walked into the building. And then we entered the classroom. And he started crying. He was crying that he wanted to leave, he didn't want me to leave him, he didn't want to go in. My heart sank. Were we going to go through this all year long? Thankfully by the end of mine & Mrs. Joyce's meeting, he was opening up, but he was certainly ready to get out of there. I started dreading his actual first day of school.

Mrs. Joyce & Jake

Jake's first day of school was supposed to be Tuesday, the 4th, but we had to miss it to attend my grandmother's funeral. So I'm just pretending that Wednesday was his first day of school. Of course I've seen everywhere all these precious pictures of kids on their first day of school. Holding chalkboards, with their backpacks, etc... Of course I had a work emergency come up as I was trying to get us out the door. I quickly just printed out a sign off the computer (which probably has a ton of misspelled words). I completely forget that I have to fix Jake a lunch, so I'm trying to do that, while on a conference call while having Jake run around in the background. We finally make it out the door already 10 minutes late. And then Jake would not participate. He just kept running around & throwing the sign up. How does everyone else get their kid to just stand there & smile? Oh well, it's just called life and there is much more worse things than this!

Refusing to just hold the sign in front of him

He thought the whole thing was hilarious

We did better without the sign

Completely ignoring me, but giving a good smile to the construction workers building a house across the street.

So now that we are a good 15 minutes late, we finally get in the car. This year, his school is no longer doing curbside drop off, so I actually have to park my car, get Jake out & walk him to the door (and therefore look somewhat presentable). It's pretty tragic. His class was already in their room. I was preparing myself for Jake to start crying. We walked into his class. This was his first time to see all of his classmates since May. All his little friends excitedly yelled his name & ran up to him. They were just a jabbering away. Jake immediately jabbered back. They were all so cute. It made my heart melt. I quietly slipped out the door. When I picked Jake up he said he had so much fun. No tears on Thursday either. He says he loves his school, Mrs. Joyce and his friends. Yea!! 

Jake's past first day of school pictures...



August 2011 (Westwood Baptist Church Mother's Day Out Pre-3K)



August 2010 (Ridgedale Baptist Church Daycare)



August 2009 (Ridgedale Baptist Church Daycare)





March 2009 - First day of actual daycare (Ridgedale Baptist Church Daycare)