First Day of School!

A quick one day after we came home with Case, we were up bright and early preparing for our first day of Preschool.  Caden was starting his 3rd year of school, but Carsten was starting Preschool for the first time!  I had talked with his teachers, and the director of the program, AND multiple friends, AND... yes, lots of people...about how the timing of it all might affect him.  I didn't want him to feel like since we were bringing the new baby home, he would have to start school and mommy was abandoning him.  (Not to mention, he already had quite the separation anxiety without all the happenings with the new baby.)  I was hesitant to send him, BUT, he seemed so excited we decided to give it a try and see how it went.

Brad and I took both boys to school that morning.  Carsten said that he wanted Daddy to drop him off (very unusual for him to prefer Brad to do something, but I would take it!).  I stood back a few feet and watched and tried to prepare myself.  I HATE (more than anything) leaving screaming babies at daycare.  HATE IT!  And, I had the added ingredient of postpartum hormones that could have easily made this a terrible situation.  HOWEVER, it wasn't!  He went straight to the train table and started pushing cars around and didn't look back.   No tears for Carsten = No tears for me!  I was SOOO pleasantly surprised!  It was SUCH a relief!  He did great the 2nd time too.  The 3rd time he went was when we really started to see a little resistance.  Here we are, and his 4th trip will be in 2 days.  I'm really hoping that we can get past this little hurdle soon!

Here are some pics of Caden's first day of Pre-K. He goes 2 half days a week, Mondays and Wednesdays.  And Carsten's first day of Preschool (2's and 3's).  He goes one half day a week, Mondays.  

And here's Case on his big brother's first day!