Shelby's First Day of Preschool

Today was Shelby's first day of preschool at Trinity UMC! She is in the "Young 3's" class, and all of her classmates are turning 3 years old sometime between September & January or February. There are a total of 11 kids in her class, and most of them are her friends from her Mother's Morning Out class last year. And I'm beyond thankful that she will have the same 2 wonderful teachers this year that she had last year for MMO--Mrs. Karen & Mrs. Leslie.

Shelby's very first pencil box for school! We were even instructed to label
her individual crayons, which kind of cracked me up! But I love that she'll
be learning responsibility at school!

Shelby will go to preschool 2 days a week (Mondays & Friday) from 8:30-11:30. Since Monday was Labor Day, today was her first day. And apparently getting up on the first day of school isn't so easy for these two little girls. ;)  I had to go in and wake both of them up! I hate waking sleeping babies, but they both looked so sweet in their beds that I couldn't resist a picture!

I took this little video of Shelby this morning for no other reason except that Shelby loves for me to take videos of her so she can watch them on my phone. I have no idea why that is so fun for her, but it is! So here it is:

In the car on the way to school...all smiles!

Before we left the house this morning, Shelby asked a couple of times if Hadley & I could come into school with her. At Trinity, they do not like parents do go into the classrooms to make drop-off easier on the kiddos (which I love!). But for her little "preschool orientation" in August, Hadley & I did go into her classroom, which I think is what she was remembering this morning. So I was a bit worried about how drop-off would go when she realized we wouldn't be going into her classroom, but she was all smiles walking into school & didn't look back once she saw her classroom full of her friends! I was so proud of her!

By the time 11:30 rolled around, I was so excited to pick Shelby up & hear all about her first day! She told me she had lots of fun, and she got a great report from her teachers! When we got home & sat down to lunch, Shelby actually asked to go upstairs for her nap 30 minutes before naptime. I didn't argue. ;)