Carrying his backpack on the first day of school.

Lex is at preschool this morning. I’m at work. Eve is at daycare. Alan is working from home. It occured to me on the way to preschool this morning that today is the first time that I can remember that all four of us are in a different place.

We had a hurried morning today. Alan and Lex woke up at 7am, just as the clock was chiming and I was realizing that we have to be leaving in half an hour! I think we are going to need to start getting up a little earlier. Well, some of us anyway, some of us were up at 6am (and awake at 5am with a happy, bouncing toddler!) We managed to get everyone out the door, though I didn’t get the “holding a Pre-K sign on the front porch” pic that I wanted. I ran Eve into daycare and she was a little disgruntled about the hurried drop off an hour earlier than normal. No tears (that I saw) but clearly not happy either. Then back in the car and off to preschool.

We got there right on time and Lex was so excited the whole way. He said hello to the principal at the door, admiried the school bus out front, used the bathroom on the way in and made it all the way to his classroom. The he clung to Alan like a scared monkey baby. They cuddled for a few minutes and then Alan transfered hm to me. I sat on the floor with him and hugged him, then started pointing out the kids he played with yesterday and the toys. Then the (great!) teacher came over and asked if he brought his new backpack today and he happily bounced over to show her the cool things he put in his backpack (a cup, a snack, and a chanage of clothes). Life was good from there. He put on his nametag (on his back, where all stickers must go!) and waved goodbye to us. We have a silly routine at home and daycare where he likes to watch out the window and wave goodbye as we leave. He was a little concerned that he couldn’t see us out the window from his classroom, but his teacher let him stand in the doorway and watch us go down the hall. He’s so sweet!!!

I cried, just a little, but I know he’s going to have fun. I’m already looking forward to pickup :)