First Day of Pre-School

Today is Abby's first day at the T-Bird Pre-School. She has been waiting for this day for quite a while. Last year she was very sad when all her friends went to school and she didn't. This year it was Megan staying back at daycare, so hopefully she does okay. But as she was pretty much the only one left there I am sure she is getting a lot of play time and attention from our babysitter.


Here is Abby with her preferred breakfast before school - blueberry muffins and chocolate milk.


Of course Megan got a couple too, she had eaten all of hers before Abby ate one - then took Abby's cup of milk and dumped it on the floor - good start to the day!

Here we are looking all tough before going in to school, rocking the Tinkerbelle backpack of course.

Waving goodbye - I was told Mommies didn't need to come in, but you can guess that I of course did.


Already with her friend DJ from daycare. She knows about 4 kids so she is already well on her way. I can't wait for the recap today when I pick her up after work!!


My radio station talked about this poem - so I decided to read it. Even though Abby isn't in Kindergarten yet I thought it was befitting for the day.



Dear World,

I bequeath to you today one little girl... in a crispy dress... with two blue eyes... and a happy laugh that ripples all day long... and a flash of light blond hair that bounces in the sun when she runs. I trust you'll treat her well.

She's slipping out of the backyard of my heart this morning...and skipping off down the street to her first day of school. And never again will she be completely mine. Prim and proud she'll wave her young and independent hand this morning and say "Goodbye" and walk with little lady steps to the schoolhouse.

Now she'll learn to stand in lines... and wait by the alphabet for her name to be called. She'll learn to tune her ears for the sounds of school-bells... and deadlines... and she'll learn to giggle... and gossip... and look at the ceiling
in a disinterested way when the little boy 'cross the aisle sticks out his tongue at her. And, now she'll learn to be jealous. And now she'll learn how it is to feel hurt inside. And now she'll learn how not to cry.

No longer will she have time to sit on the front porch steps on a summer day and watch an ant scurry across the crack in the sidewalk. Nor will she have time to pop out of bed with the dawn and kiss lilac blooms in the morning dew. No, now she'll worry about those important things... like grades and which dress to wear and whose best friend is whose. And the magic of books and learning will replace the magic of her blocks and dolls. And now she'll find new heroes.

For five full years now I've been her sage and Santa Claus and pal and playmate and father and friend. Now she'll learn to share her worship with her teachers... which is only right.

But, no longer will I be the smartest, greatest man in the whole world. Today when that school bell rings for the first time... she'll learn what it means to be a member of the group... with all its privileges and its disadvantages too.

Today I will watch her start out on the long journey to becoming a woman.

So, world, I bequeath to you today one little girl... in a crispy dress... with two blue eyes... and a flash of light blond hair that bounces in the sunlight when she runs.

I trust you'll treat her well.