So, I know that everyone else shared their back to school pics last week, but my kids' school always starts a week late. Is that just a preschool thing? I don't know, whatever...all I know is it makes for easy last minute back to school shopping. Things may be severely picked over, but it is all on super duper sale! Love that!

Today was Anna's first day of her last year at her preschool. Next year is kindergarten. "/ This was Wallace's first year at the school. They only take kids that are between 2 and 5, and it's pretty much just a mothers' day out schedule, which is just perfect for my Mom. Now she can get some stuff done around the house and get to know Meredith... ;)

I've already shared this with a few people today, but drop off this morning was an experience. This was the first year Josh didn't go with me, so I wasn't able to get any pics at the school because it was just too much with 2 kids, but I got some at my mom's house when I was dropping Meredith off.

Anna was her usual first-day-of-school self. She let go of my hand at the door to her classroom and didn't look back. I made eye contact with her teacher who basically gave me a "what the heck?? O-kay..." kind of look. I've gotten that same look 3 years in a row now. Anna has been such a breeze when it comes to going to school. She's just always so excited about it. In fact my Mom has complained to me before that Anna will cry when she picks her up! Conversely, her teachers always tell me how nice it is to have a smiling face every day. :)

So, we're always pretty excited to drop Anna off for her first day, and so we typically are the first or second parents there. When I went into the little kid building to drop Wallace off this morning I was a little later than normal because we'd dropped Anna off first (I thought Wallace would see this and maybe get a little excited about his class).

Anyway...I got to his classroom and there were already a handful of kids there...most were sitting by the teacher trying to hold it all together while she read a book, but one was walking around bawling!!! How sad! Wallace has a tendency to cry when he loses sight of us, so I've been concerned he might be the bawling child for a while now. I handed him off to the co-teacher, and she quickly set to entertaining him with some toys while I snuck out. When I peeked through the 2-way mirror he seemed fine. Here's where it got interesting.... As I walked down the hall to leave all I could hear were children crying!!!! We've always been in and out so fast with Anna that we never knew this was happening! As I passed the 3-year-old class that Anna was in last year there was a little boy hammering his fists on the door wailing for his mommy.... I saw Anna's old teacher and was like "is this normal?" She assured me it was. "/ What a crappy day for all of them.

This week is all short days, so my Mom picks them up literally 3 hours after I drop them off, so by lunchtime I got a report. Anna loved it, as expected. :) But Wallace cried the whole day....except when they took them outside to play on the playground. What a bummer...Really praying he pulls it together and starts enjoying his time there...

He wouldn't really pose for me this morning, but Anna held him in place for a second.

A couple actually!  :) — A couple actually! :)

And Anna kind of showed off her fancy nail polish.  Rainbow is always her request, but today she came home from school, and I guess some mom got overzealous, and a girl had a crown or something on her nails....ugh...I'm going to have to buy a h… — And Anna kind of showed off her fancy nail polish. Rainbow is always her request, but today she came home from school, and I guess some mom got overzealous, and a girl had a crown or something on her nails....ugh...I'm going to have to buy a how-to book or something.