How can it be?

Walking up to Evergreen Elementary

I'm sure every mother has her moments of complete and utter amazement at how old their children are becoming.  I know that M and B are only 3, but the milestones seem to be piling up quickly.  Today we hit another one.  You'll have to forgive the number of pictures; Sammy did a great job capturing their first day of preschool. What's even more amazing to me is that they were able to tell me all about it, right down to the silly faces on their animal crackers.

Of course, having never been left at daycare or school before, we were slightly worried about how the kids would react to Sammy walking away.  While Ben was evidently a little confused about why Mommy wasn't there ("Mommy's my teacher."), they jumped right in to the activities.  They're lucky though, they always have each other.  Plus, Mia was really fired up to play with the train set again after seeing it at the Open House last week!

Lots of new experiences today!  We had to figure out our lockers, unpack our bags, and learn the names of our new friends.  Only some of these were successful; evidently Ben played with a "blue boy" just like him.  I don't know if that's eye color or clothing! :)  Mia enjoyed playing with trains and boys (said with more sass than any mom wants to hear in her 3 year old's voice!).  

They also had to bring their favorite stuffed animal with them today.  Mia's bear was an obvious choice.  Ben's ostrich, not quite as obvious!  Evidently, he wanted to bring it because he thought it was funny that they stick their head in the dirt.


I can only hope that Mrs. Suits continues to hold their hearts and they love it every day as much as they did today!