First Day of School!

Today was Dominic's first day of school!  He has been SO EXCITED to go back to school!  He has been looking forward to seeing his teachers and all his friends.


On Wednesday, they had an Open House to welcome all the students & their families to the school before school actually started.  All the kids got to see their teachers (or meet them for the first time) and play all over the school.  As soon as we got there, he ran right into the school and searched for each of his teachers.  Once he found them he gave them each a big, huge hug!  Then he was off and I think he literally played with every single toy in every single area of the school.  It was so much fun watching him.  He was so happy to show me everything and have me sitting on the floor with him building things with the blocks.  I love getting a chance to spend some 1:1 time with him and I think he enjoys it as well! 

 I had to get a pic of Dominic "exercising" on the kiddie elliptical.  So cute!!

Friday, the first day of school, is finally here!  What we learned today is that getting out of the house on time on Fridays is going to be a challenge.  Friday is garbage day.  Our garbage man used to come early so by 7am he has already come and gone.  His route seems to have changed a few weeks ago because he no longer gets to our house that early.  Instead, he goes to every single street around us first.  That means that every single time Dominic hears the truck on one of the neighboring streets, he thinks it is coming to ours and has to run into our room, jump onto our bed and look out our window for the garbage truck.  Once he realizes it isn't coming to our house, he goes back to whatever he was doing...getting dressed, taking his vitamins, eating his breakfast, putting his shoes on.  Yes, each of these activities was interrupted by multiple dashes upstairs to look out the window.


We finally get dressed & fed and head out the door!  Take a wild guess what happens when I set him up to take his "First day of school" picture?

And we don't just watch it collect our garbage, we have to watch him get everyone on the court's garbage and then the very nice man waves at Dominic as he leaves our court.  The highlight of his Friday mornings!

Okay, the garbage has been collected, we can now go on with our day!

As we are driving to school he asks if Lily will be there.  He has been asking me this every single day this week!  Yes, Lily will be there.  Then he says that he can't wait to see Ms. Peggy, Ms. Nadine and Ms. Monique!  I tell him that Ms. Monique won't be there.  He asked why and I told him that a new teacher is there.  He says "Oh. Ms. Monique is old?"  Just what I need.  Dominic walking into school telling everyone that Mommy says Ms. Monique is old!  I tell him, "No, she just teaches at a different school now." That's the end of that.  He then proceeds to ask (for the 137th time this week) if Lily is going to be there. 

We finally get to school and drop off was a little different today!  The MWF class has about 3x as many students as his TTH class did so there are tons of people there to drop off!  We get there, I get a pic of him in front of the school...

I sign him in, check the folder, talk to the Director about something I am working on for her and then turn to say goodbye to Dominic and he has already gone back with the rest of the class!  I didn't even get a goodbye!! :(  At least I know he is excited and looking forward to the day.

When I picked him up from school, he was so happy to see me and tell me that he had "SO MUCH FUN!!" at school today!  I asked him what he did, did he work on any projects, did he learn anything new?  He said "No. We played, we went outside, we played outside, we ate snack, we came inside, and you pick me up and now we are driving. Where are we going?  Are we going home?"  I told him that I was dropping him off at Donna's (daycare) and he said he wanted to go home with me.  I told him that Chloe is at Donna's and she misses him so he has to go there to see Chloe.  He says "No she doesn't.  She's OK.  Let's go home and play and then we pick Chloe up later." Uhhhh..."What about your friends, Eliza & Nathan, at Donna's?" His response "Okay...remember, last week, Eliza said I'm cute?!?!"  Eliza is the same age as Dominic and a couple weeks ago he tells me "Mommy.  Eliza said I'm cute!!!" in a very giddy voice.  It was one of the cutest things ever!  

So all in all it was a great day!  He had a blast at school and cannot wait to go back next week!  I am enjoying the fact that he didn't complain at all about having to go to bed and fell asleep right away!  Whoo hoo!!!