first day of preschool

Today I dropped my baby off for his first day of preschool.

I walked him to the front door, told him to be a good boy, gave him a kiss, and he walked in without looking back.

I know lots of moms cry when they drop their kids off for their first day of all-day-every-day public school.

But not preschool.

I mean, its only 2 days a week for 2 hours!

But I have to admit I got a little teary eyed as I got in the car and drove away.

Partly because I was proud of Madden for going to pre-school like such a big boy.

He's a pretty sensitive kid and I was worried there might be some hesitation and maybe some tears.

But there wasn't.

And also partly because I thought by the time I had a kid in preschool, I would have another little one to keep me company throughout the day.

The car ride home was awfully quiet.

And it made me a little sad.

But instead of sitting at home, crying and feeling sad and counting the minutes til it was time to pick Madden up, I called the Dr. and made an appt to find out why I don't yet have another little one to keep me company while Maddens at school, and then I went to the gym and ran my little heart out.

2 hours later, I was sooooooo excited to pick Madden up!

He was waiting for me with a huge smile on his face and ran to me and hugged me and told me he missed me :)

It melted my heart!

I took him out for a happy meal and we talked about his first day.  His first day report went a little something like this:

"I sang my ABC's and I glued some beans.  There was some nice kids and some naughty kids.  But I was nice.  And some kids were too shy.  Oh, and there was 2 Teagans and 2 Randalls, it was crazy!"

He loves school and loves his teacher, Ms. Kortney.

And I couldn't be happier that he had such a successful first day :)