The Grand Adventure: T is for Tigers, Tricks, and Tattletales

First Day of School

Lauren started real preschool in September. I had a lot of mixed feelings about preschool before hand. After much debating over several different programs we finally chose one. It is five days a week for three hours a day, which I feel like is a bit overkill for a preschool, but it has actually been really good. It has been a really different transition for everyone but still good. It is an excellent program and Lauren is thriving. It does totally drain her though and she comes home and collapses somewhere until she is ready to be around people again. By that point she has forgotten everything they did, or so she says. But at random times she will fill us in on the little gems that she learns at preschool. Some things good, some not so good, and some interesting:

"On Saturday my teacher says she is going to stay home and drink coffee."

"What is a booty?"
I ask "Like Pirate's Booty?" (a snack they have at church sometimes)
"No at preschool they said to sit on your booty."

I ask Lauren what she does at preschool, "Mommy you should just come and stay with me while I'm at preschool and then you would know what we do." Touche.

She has also been trying out new words that she hears, which is amusing:

She ran into the kitchen table: "This table is so pokey, it's ridiculous!"

A little song she sang while lining up crayons on the floor: (To the tune of The Farmer in the Dell)

"The crayons were in despair. The crayons were in despair.

They were using themselves as a sidewalk"