Graduation...

tassels are cool.

Well, today my oldest child graduated from pre-school.

How does the time pass s quickly? It makes my eyes well up with tears when I think about my little baby growing up. The baby that I took home from the hospital and wondered why in the world was I allowed to take home this baby who I had no idea how to take care of is now going to be off to big kid school in the fall.

look, they're not trying to inflict pain on each other...

He has turned from a baby to a toddler to a pre-schooler to a kid. He has his own little personality and his own little friends. This is the starting point of him becoming his own person and him being independent. As a mom I want to hold onto him as long as possible but know that I need to let him go at the same time.

my husband failed to use the zoom feature on the camera so here I am with Ty-Guy in the picture...

My baby is a big boy now but he will always be my little baby who I love to snuggle with and who makes me laugh with his silly ways. He always tells me that he'll live with me forever, and while I hope he moves his butt out by the age of twenty-two it is nice to hear that at his old age of five he is still a momma's boy.

And On Goes the Tuition Checks...

don't mess with me...

Yesterday my son's nursery school sent home a registration form for next year. My son is going to be entering kindergarten next year but my daughter, who is 2 1/2 will be entering nursery school.

It is so hard to believe that my little girl is going to be going to school next year- granted, it will only be for two days a week for a few hours but where the heck did the time go? Before I know it the baby is going to be in school and I'm going to be a barren old lady sitting home alone during the day.

Once the sadness wears off about my little sweetie pie going to school the sheer terror will set in when I wonder if she is going to call her classmates weiner-heads and push anyone who won't surrender a toy she wants. At least my son has always been well behaved at school so if my daughter is a monster they won't think I'm a completely awful mom.

And so the tuition check writing will continue...

First Day of School (thank you god!)

Yesterday was my son's first day of preschool. Last year he went two afternoons a week and this year he is going three mornings a week.

I was so relieved to drop him off because lately my kids have been fighting about everything and it is nice to have a break from the yelling. For three mornings a week it will just be my daughter and I having mommy daughter time and three afternoons a week it will be just my son and I having mommy son time while my daughter takes her nap. Kids together equals chaos and a huge headache for mommy; kids apart equals less chaos and mommy not wanting to run away with the circus.

I am most definitely not just sending my son to school for selfish reasons (if that were the case I would have sent him all day every day). He really enjoys going and being around all of his friends. Plus, he gets to do all sorts of things that I don't have time to do with him at home.

So here is to a good school year and somewhat keeping what little sanity I have left.

Nursery School Registration

Yesterday my son's school sent home a paper to register for Fall 2011. It seems a bit early to be thinking about next year but I guess spots fill up fast.

Now, I have been on the fence about whether I like his school or not. The teachers are nice and he really likes it but they do silly assessments that I do not agree with. They also think my son may have sensory issues because he stands too close to the other kids which I know is total B.S. (why must evey little behavior have a label attached to it- God only knows what labels teachers would have put on me if I were a kid today). Oh yeah, he is also the only boy in his class (there are four classes). Something seems wrong about there being three girls and him- the girls clique off together and he is left out. In his class picture they had the three girls standing together holding up the class sign in front of a wooden train in the play yard and my son was standing by himself in the train- it kind of bothered me seeing that but maybe I am overreacting. Supposedly there are going to be more boys in his class after the holidays.

So, what do I do? I was leaning towards keeping him in his current school but after reading back what I just wrote I don't know. I feel like I may be wrong about my feelings because everyone else seems to love the school but at the same time as a mom my gut tells me I am right. Am I being too picky? The only thing I want is a nursery school where the kids can be kids and play and if they learn things while doing it- good for them. I don't care if my son knows how to correctly hold a pencil or write his name at the ripe old age of 3 1/2. My pickiness scares me because if this is how I am acting about nursery school then when he goes to public school I'm sure that I am going to have a lot more issues with how things are done. I would love to send my kids to private school but as of right now I don't see that happening. But in a couple of years when he is actually in Kindergarten who know if things will change. I also think homeschooling sounds wonderful but I do not have the capacity to do something like that- I would be doing my kids more a disservice by trying to teach them myself.

I will wait until after the holidays to see if having other boys in his class changes things and if this gut feeling I have that this is not the right school goes away. At the same time, I am going to look into other options for my son to see if there is a better fit out there.