Summer School

Both Luke and Mia are attending the 6-week summer school session at Mandala this summer. It will mark a very important milestone:  the first time in nearly 5 years that I have been child-free for a few hours without getting a babysitter!  Yes, this is very exciting :)

It also marks another important first:  Mia's first taste of preschool!

For Luke, it is a bit anti-climactic.  I mean, we did just make this huge deal about "graduating" from preschool, and now we are sending him right back.  Ha!  Despite that, he's happy to be going back for a few weeks.  He loves Mandala school.

I wanted to take a few pictures of Mia on her first day, but Luke really wasn't understanding this and wanted to be in the pictures also.  On top of that, despite that fact that this is summer school and we live in California, both kids were complaining about how "freezing" they were.

Oh, well, I tried....

I was pretty concerned about how Mia would react to being left at school.  I had tried leaving her in the classroom a month or so ago while I attended a meeting at the preschool, and it had ended in disaster.  She screamed and cried so much that eventually they brought her back to me.  Thankfully, we had a week of Vacation Bible Camp's daycare under our belts this time around (Mia attended all 5 days while Luke went to camp and I led a group).  It seems that her time in the VBC daycare really paid off because she took to preschool at Mandala today without any trouble.  She first acted as though she might cry, but then when I took her to show her the bathroom and she saw that they had small toilets close to the ground, low sinks, and paper towels within her reach and that she could "do it all herself," she was sold!  It also helped that Miss Sharada was there to encourage her.  After she tried out the bathroom, she happily said goodbye to me and had a great day.    Woo hoo! 

Now, what to do with my 3 hours of time twice a week?  Hmm, maybe I'll go grocery shopping and to the dentist alone.  How exciting!