Second Week of School, Visit to Granna's

This week was Evie's second week of school, and my first week.  This was also the first week of school for the other kids in Evie's school who did not have phase in last week - so, all of the 3 other classrooms plus the 13 other Montessori kids who were not there last week.  This led to a bit of a hard time in getting Evie to cooperate on Monday because the hallway in front of the Montessori classroom was a flurry of activity and I think Evie was used to it being calm.  She started getting unsettled as soon as we got to the classroom door and then started clinging to me when the other kids started going into the class.  I had to pry her arms off of me and Ms. Jan had to hold her while I walked down the hallway listening to her screaming.  Those are the hard parent moments.

But by the end of the day she was all smiles, according to Seth who picked her up.  I had to leave immediately from dropping Evie off to go to one of my clinic placements and then went straight to class, then to the gym, then back to class until 8:30 pm when the instructor let us out a little bit early, so I barely got to see her at all Monday night.  Tuesdays and Thursdays I'm at a nursing home starting at 8am so Seth has to take Evie to school those days but I pick her up.  I can take her on Wednesdays and some Fridays, so we pretty much alternate who takes her and who picks her up on a daily basis.  Or at least, we will until Grannadaddy starts getting her on Tuesdays after gymnastics.  I honestly don't know how I keep this all straight in my head, but I'm glad I have the help of Google calendar to coordinate all of this.

The rest of the week went fine for drop offs and Evie was back to being confident in walking into the classroom.  She had a great week and I love that she's already made a good friend there, a little girl named Jackson who wants to hug Evie before she leaves every day.  Evie's learned a lot already and comes home counting so well and singing new songs every day.

Speaking of singing songs, I really enjoyed these:

My favorite language moment of the week: I was driving through our neighborhood which has some speed humps that are identified by a yellow sign.  We used to count from when we passed the yellow sign to when we went over the hump, which took to the count of 3, and then as we would go over the hump we would say, "Wheeeeeee!".  As I was doing that with Evie this week, we come up toward the stop sign and Evie said, "That sign says not wheee."

Today after church Evie got to go home with Granna while Seth and I went to see a show at a local theatre.  Evie hadn't been to Granna's house at all this past week and she was really looking forward to visiting.  After the church service she is usually running around the sanctuary, crawling under the piano or pretending to sing in the microphone, but today she stuck like glue to Granna's side waiting to go to Granna's house.  I love that Granna's house is such a special place for Evie because both of my grandparents' houses were special places for me.  And the grandparents in those houses are what make them so wonderful.  We are so grateful for Granna and Grannadaddy.