First day at the fun farm

Ok, so I'm not sending my two year old to school, that would be ridiculous haha, but he is going to a play group once a week at his future preschool.  they meet Fridays 9-12 and basically play, maybe do some basic art projects, but it's fun.  I'm excited for him to get more socialization and being around other kids/adults etc.  Ok, and I won't lie-my Fridays basically are a holiday now.  He's gone from breakfast to lunch, comes home, eats, and in an hour goes down for his nap and doesn't wake up to til just before dinner cause he's so tired from all the fun.  Being 7 mo prego, I really appreciate this and know that it is a very tiny fleeting window I have to enjoy before baby #2 comes and I won't have a similar situation til all kids are old enough to be in real school.  Not to sound cold, but I don't really feel sad (at least so far) with this type of step- I feel proud and excited for the new experiences he's having/growing up etc.  I loved school and hope he does too.

Yesterday was Jake's first day.  Kids are like sharks.  They can smell when something is off or different the way a shark can smell blood in the water-they also smell weakness of will and fear, but that's a different story ;)  So, somehow Jake woke up not quite as happy as usual and was emotionally over reacting to everything which is not like him.  (I think he has been experiencing some of the light cold that code had a few days ago-but it hasn't been bad enough to show actual symptoms, just slightly cranky which isn't normal).  When I needed to go upstairs and get something after breakfast he started crying and chasing after me like he thought i was leaving him (never done that before).  Really kid??? of all days, today when I actually am going to leave you somewhere you pull this behavior?  I'm telling you, sharks.  Anywho, but I told him we were going to go look at the animals on the farm and he got so excited that we had to leave 15 min early cause he was starting to cry when I kept telling him "not yet."  So we get there plenty early (the preschool is on a lil small animal farm), and start watching the animals.

Jake did ok.  There was already a kid crying so his sensors were definitely up but he was super excited to see dinosaur toys and that distracted him long enough for me to bolt.  I didn't make it up the stairs before I heard his scream/cry, but when I picked him up they said he only cried for like 5 min and then he was fine once he saw the cars.  He had his first experience with a sand box and once he decided that walking on sand didn't equate to walking on lava he became more adventurous.  He learned pretty quickly that eating sand is not desirable but luckily learned from his mistake and didn't try it again :)  After that he loved putting sand into the dump trucks etc.  I was so proud of him, and so grateful to his teachers- they are so on top of things and understanding about his allergy situation that I really feel fully comfortable with him being there which is saying a lot.

I'm sure he'll do great and won't even cry after a few more visits just like nursery!

And I got to run a quick errand and give my downstairs a much needed cleaning which was nice.  At Lowe's  while on my errand I saw a fog machine- so getting that for this and every future halloween!  I know, I know, I'm crazy.....crazy fun.