Preschool

So as you may or may not know..(I have no idea who reads this blog)..Jacob has started preschool! My plan at first was to have Jacob in preschool with his cousin and best friend Matthew, but due to poor planning, indecision and procrastination, he was not registered. It looked as if we were going to forgo preschool and keep him in daycare once or twice a week.

I went to the school to put Jacob on the wait list for kindergarten, and my Sister informed me that sometimes new preschool classes start in January, and that I should look into it. It would be great if Jacob could get acquainted with the school that he may be attending for kindergarten, so I looked into it. Boy, I'm glad I did. By the grace of God or some other crazy miracle, the school had ONE spot left in his cousin Matthew's class! If we wanted the spot we could have it, and he was allowed to start preschool right away!

So although he started school a couple weeks later than the rest, he is in. He has gone a total of four days now and it's like he has always been there. There was ZERO transition, ZERO anxiety, ZERO concerns. On his very first day I hung back to watch for a minute, and he sat on the carpet happy as a clam yelling out all the answers to the teacher's questions. After his first day, his teacher said he did amazingly well. No problems whatsoever.

Now that he is in there and I am seeing just how much he loves it, I am so so so glad that I took Kelsey's advice and checked into it. Jacob tells me about the stories they have read, the songs they have sung, the art he has made, and how he gets to do it all with his best friend beside him.

Yay for school!