I signed Lex up for preschool in the fall!
He is super excited and I am nervous. Typical, right? Our
school district offers a free public preschool (they call it
Pre-K) and we are waiting to hear if he’s been accepted (not
really worried about that) and which session. There are two
schools and each school holds a morning and afternoon session.
On the application we got to specify our preferred place/time,
but we may or may not get it. I choose a morning session at the
school right down the street, but I won’t know for sure until
the end of May.

I went to a preschool
informational meeting tonight. It was interesting. The program
is pretty basic and everyone seems nice. The preschool room is
kind of small and clearly a public school, but the teachers are
super nice and the one I was speaking with was thrilled about
his reading abilities and already started talking about ways to
work that into the program. They also have a nice little
reading corner and she said that they never force kids to join
the group if the kid doesn’t want to. I’m sure Lex will, but
maybe not right way. He likes to hang back and watch for a few
minutes. Or maybe he’ll jump right in, who knows! I had Emily,
our neighbor, watch them tonight while I went to the meeting
(Alan had to work late) and the kids were thrilled! Lex
normally runs and hides (just being silly, really) when people
come over, but with Emily he was right there, talking to her
immediately. He pulled her into the living room to show off his
trains.

I think Lex is definitely ready
for school and he is really excited about it, but it will be
weird to leave him every day. I guess you have to send that
first one off sometime, huh? Although these past few days I’ve
been ready to boot him out several times!! I think they are
both getting bored of being home with me full-time. Hmmm….
anyway. Preschool in the fall!