Preschool Update…well and Introduction too

Friends I am a bit behind on blogging…forgive me please. I shall begin back in August! Yikes, it is October! Time, where have you gone? Yes, ahem, preschool. We had a “meet the teacher” a few days before my two littles would embark on their next great social adventure.  Their teacher is Ms. Mary, and may I just say that we are in love with her? Ms. Mary has been teaching 3 year olds for 16 years, I believe she is a saint. She is very grandmotherly and the girls instantly took a liking to her. Their names were on the door and up on the wall and while we were there they each colored a picture that Ms. Mary put up on the wall in a premade frame. So their art was showcased for all to see before we left. She even put up a fingerspelling chart for Yaya and the kids will be learning their manual alphabet this year too!  School started a few days later and the girls just hopped out of the car and happily walked in. They have done this almost everyday since! They like Ms. Mary,  like their friends, enjoy a class called “Happy Feet” (P.E.), enjoy chapel, lunch and playground time. They transitioned beautifully. We have had some regression with potty training for both girls and Yaya’s sleep was greatly disrupted and continues to be. Nighttime is when Yaya works out most of her anxiety, God love the child. Ms. Mary has been outstanding with Yaya! Yaya is included in on everything and when Ms. Mary does something intended just to help Yaya she presents it to the entire class so it appears as if it is for the whole class to know and learn. Which actually does help the entire class. I am so impressed how Ms. Mary beautifully balances sensitivity and attention to Yaya without singling her out. We just had open house last night and the girls showed us their room and Ms. Mary had, “All About Me,” books out on the table. It was such a work of care and love. They had all these interesting facts about each child, some art work, things that told us what they did each day and two pages full of candid pictures of our children and an informal class picture! It is amazing! How Ms. Mary did all this I don’t know. All this to say preschool 4 days a week rocks and it allows me to focus on Noah and his home schooling. Here are some classroom shots. I love the self portraits. As a note, Eden doesn’t have 4 eyes. The outer brown dots are cheeks! So cute!