Charlee's First Day of Pre-School!

About a week and a half ago, Charlee started Pre-school! This was a big day because since last year, when Amelia started Pre-school, Charlee had been waiting and waiting for her turn ot go to school! She actually had to wait a couple of weeks because of a gas spill in the city of her school, so the start date was delayed quite a while. Finally the day came. She loves it! She loves her teachers and her classmates. I think there are only abut 10 students in the class, which is nice. They have been taking good care of her. It's a full day of school each day, so she comes home pretty exhausted. She doesn't want to talk about school right away when I pick her up, but later in the evening she tells me a few details. On her days off, she happily answers all my questions about school. I guess she doesn't like talking about it when she's tired! This week on Wednesday it was a little sad because she knew Amelia had a half day at school. Half way through the day, the teacher said Charlee cried and said, "I'm not supposed to be here. I need to go home because Amelia is home." Yesterday she cried a little at school too, because she wanted a half day. After talking about it with her, I think she's prepared to spend full days at school, every day. Next time Amelia has a half day, I won't be mentioning it to Charlee, haha. Here is is first day picture!

Cal seems a little bored without his sisters. He wanders around looking for them. He is always so happy to see them when they come home. He keeps shouting "Hi!" and waving all the way home :)

Amelia's First Day of School

Amelia turns 5 tomorrow!  This has been a very tough week for her.  She was so nervous (might even say anxious) about school before it began.  Because she was unable to express her emotions of worry in words, it came out in anger.  We had never seen some of the behaviors that she was exhibiting this week and we were really concerned.  It was so difficult for our whole family because I wasn't able to get her to talk to me about how she was feeling.  Josh had better luck talking it out with her and sometimes he would get a tidbit of information that helped us understand.  We knew her little heart was hurting and it was hurting us too, but we didn't know how to help her.  She wasn't sleeping because of her worries.  She had an abundance of sugar and junk food because of her early birthday celebrations.  Her routine was all out of wack because of the special birthday dates with family members.  It all took a toll on her.  And us!  

We prayed, prayed, prayed and prayed again.  I prayed over her while she slept, while she threw a fit, while she was awake and happy.  I prayed and read scripture over her.  Well, God answered.  I would have preferred He answer a little quicker, haha, but He definitely showed up in the situation.  The night before school, she miraculously slept great all night and she has since!  She told me she was a little nervous the first day.  We were expecting the worst when she came home yesterday but to our surprise she had such a good time, had a good attitude and told us all about it with a happy heart!  I am so thankful that God helped her heart when we couldn't reach it.  It's a helpless feeling to see something going wrong in your kid and not be able to fix it!  God did what he does best!  After all, He loves her, and all of us, even more than we do.  Amelia went off today for another fun day at school, and our house is peaceful once again!  Praise God!    

Charlee starts pre-school next week!  She met her teachers today and they seemed very nice and welcoming.  I think she will really enjoy it!  I will have to write back next week to talk about her first school experience!