Last day of MDO for 2010-2011

Here is a picture on his last day of MDO:

Followed by a picture on his first day of MDO:

Notice he is wearing the same shorts. When I realized this, I almost changed him for pictures, but decided that I would leave him because it is such a telling story of how much he has NOT grown in his waist this year.

I am pretty nervous about summer. Entertaining a 3 year old all day long is A LOT of work.... then multiply that times 7 days a week for 3 months....PLUS an infant to care for....EEK! I have decided that we are going to have to have something
to do or focus on everyday to keep me sane and keep him interested. Even if that something is running errands. I have some ideas up my sleeves...will do a separate post on that soon, I will also be soliciting feedback and ideas at that time. :)

School / MDO

John's first day of school/MDO was back on 9/1/10. It was an emotional day for us all!

To set the stage... his supply 'theme' this year was camoflauge. He has a camo nap mat, lunch box and book bag. All of his lables are printed on camo stickers as well. And of course I dressed him in camo shorts for his first day.

We have been talking with him and reading about school for a couple of months now to help prepare; this preparation tactic really seems to work with John.

So... the morning of....I woke up late (ugh) and spent over half an hour making his lunch. Not real sure why, just wanted it to be perfect. :) Woke John up later than I had anticipated, so we were running a little behind. He takes quite a bit of time to wake up, eat and feel ready for the day. I should have planned better, becuase the rushed feeling of the morning was not a good one. I had to hurry and take pictures, otherwise, there would have been 1000!

Mama, Daddy and John loaded in the car, and off we went. When we got there, he put his bookbag on his back and walked in without a fuss. He unloaded all of his stuff into the right bins, hugged and kissed me goodbye, hugged and kissed Daddy goodbye... and then... came back to me...ugh... this is when the teacher saw the beginning of the melt down so she swooped John out of my arms as I start to cry and took him into the room. With my sunglasses on, I quickly walked out of there balling my eyes out. Thank God Carl was there with me or I might not have gone through with it.

When I went to pick him that day, he was in an awesome mood. They SAID he napped, but I am not so sure about that.

Day 2: I woke up earlier and had plenty of time for John to get adjusted. As we are leaving it is POURING down rain. When we get to the school, I am trying to juggle the nap mat, lunch box, bookbag and umbrella all while trying to get him out of the car without getting soaked. It was not a pretty site! Once inside, he was okay, but then after offloading all of his stuff and time to go into the classroom, he practically ripped my shirt off and was screaming! I was suprisingly fine. The teacher again swooped him from me and took him inside. I stood outstide the classroom and not 3 seconds went by before I hear him playing with the toy garage thing. He TOTALLY put on a show for me.

Day 3: He hugs and kisses me while keeping one eye on the classroom and then BOLTS inside to do the table activity. It has been that way ever since! YEAH! He loves school!