Eli's first day of school!

Well the morning of the big day finally came! And once he woke up I told him "Today is the day, buddy! You go to school!", his response "yeah!" So that morning he kept asking me, "how much longer till I go mommy?" Once the time till school got down to the 30 min. mark, he started to get watery eyes and said "I'm going to be scared mommy, I don't want to go." After talking the same thing we have been, he perked up and was happy again! I thought for sure, when I asked him to come over for a picture, he would say no, but he didn't. He was quite excited! So that made me feel good :)

On our drive over he was actually excited, but then once we got to the playground (cause thats the first thing he does for school, is recess) he shut down and started crying and saying he didn't want me to go and he was afraid. I will tell you what, God gave me strength to hold myself together then and be strong for him, cause I wanted to lose it lol. But I stayed for a couple min. while he started playing on the playground and when I started to say good buy it was a cling to the leg, don't go, sort of thing. With the teacher's help she scooped him up for me and made him feel better. Now I know some of you want to know if I cried, and of course I cried! O man! It was just like I thought it would be lol. I cried for good reasons of course! Im so excited for him! But its hard for a mom to just face the facts that her baby, isnt a baby anymore and he is growing up! Its really hard to wrap my mind around how fast time goes!! I watched him from the truck before I took off, and he calmed down very quick and started playing on the playground stuff. And I took off. It was kinda weird having a quite house once I got home and laid Dom down for a nap. I took advantage of a nap, which was so nice! Then was able to read :)

So it was time to go pick him up and once we got there, he was smiling and red cheeks like he had been running around. I asked the teacher how it went and she said it was ok. A little rough for him, but he did good! Of course Ross and I started asking him how his day was? What he did? If he made some friends? ect. but the biggest question was.....Are you excited to go back tomorrow? And he said "yes." SO happy to hear that :) I expect tomorrow to be like today was when I drop him off, but I pray not :) He said "I had fun, and it did go by fast like you said mom!" First school day was a success! YAY!!!!!

                                                           Our little preschooler :)

                                       
                                                 Dominic wanted to be in the next picture :)

                       Eli's first drawing from school. He said that it has his name and my name on it lol :)