Two down, one to go

We anticipated this week all summer--Benton started pre-K at Pleasant Hill.  Lindsey did the same program two years ago and loved it, but they are very different children.  Lindsey loves to have an activity going at all times and thinks reading, writing, and doing math problems are fun.  Benton would be content to sit in Ms. Lynn's lap and watch Disney movies the rest of his childhood.  However, we knew he needed to start school.  On his last day  at Ms. Lynn's, we both cried a little--that would be Lynn and me.  Benton had no tears because he was convinced Lynn would come be his teacher at school.  Once we broke the news that Ms. Lynn had to stay with Kate, he quickly recovered and decided he would be in Ms. Natalie's kindergarten class.  At this point, we were concerned that Benton would not adjust well to the real world. 

He spent last week with B and Popsey and they spent the week telling him how much fun school is, so B brought him home just in time for Open House and he was ecstatic.  He loved meeting his teachers and told them he was coming back Monday (and gave them both a hug and a kiss--he is our lover boy).  Monday rolled around and Benton was still excited about school.  He periodically would pass through the kitchen and gaze at his Star Wars backpack and lunchbox.  David dropped him off his first morning, and four days into preschool there has not been a tear.  In fact, every day when I arrive to pick him up in the afternoon, he says, "Aw, I not ready to go home!"  He also asks if he can come back the next day.  This might be because he is covered in dirt from head to toe (literally every inch of him other than his eyes was a dirty shade of orange every afternoon) and loves playing with the kids.  He keeps forgetting to ask his new friends their names, but he told me today that he played with a new friend and he does not know her name but she had to move her owl today.  I was celebrating the small victory that Benton was not the first to move his owl this year. 

We are grateful this preschool is available for our kids, and we are thankful to have two kids at a wonderful elementary school (eternally grateful for Ms. Lynn, too).