Yay for Preschool!

Parker's Preschool Graduation

I was really good with Lexi. I taught her all she needed to know before going to Kindergarten. She was reading basic books on her own and I sent her off proudly. I was a bit of an over-achiever. I hear it is a common ailment among moms in regard to their firstborn children. When I realized Parker was 4 and still didn't know the ABC's, colors, or how to write his name (Lexi knew all this at age 2) I knew professional help was needed. I decided to bring on the preschool. Besides with Lijah around I needed some R&R and for two and a half hours two days a week I lapped it up.

This is Parker on his first day of Preschool. He looked so grown up and cute here. He had his best friend Carter in his class and the carpooling with three other moms made this a breeze.

Some highlights of his preschool days were:

• Meeting "Woren"
• Field trips to the police station and Bashas
• Making strawberry jam
• Being scared to death of Mother Goose
• Water Day
• Making a rainbow, a flower for mom, and other projects
• Learning the Alphabet song "A is for apple and B is for bear..."

Graduation was cute. The kids sang a couple of songs for us and we watched a DVD their teacher put together for them. Notice the arm around Parker's best friend Carter. Parker is such a touchy feely little boy. He thinks any situation can be fixed with a hug or a kiss. I'm afraid for what this will translate into later in his life. I love the 'wink' that all the kids do in this video.

Mrs. Keesler was his teacher and he had a great time learning with her this year. Parker, What did you like about Mrs. Keesler? "She was so nice. She teaches us great things." Parker was in awe of her husband. He's a big guy and was around a lot and one day he told me that his teacher's "honey" told them not to walk on the grass because it had been replanted with the winter grass. I thought the title of HONEY was so cute for a four year old to pick up on. He never called him anything other than Mrs. Keesler's Honey.

Look at this cutie Patootie. This is "Woren." After the first day of school I asked Parker how his day went and what he did. He told me it was fun and then preceeded to tell me all about this little girl. "Mom there was this prettiest girl and she wore this prettiest dress and she was bootiful and I sat by her." He couldn't remember much else from his day. I kept hearing about his new friend Warren and was so glad that he had met a new buddy at school. A couple of weeks went by and one day when I went to pick him up I saw him purposefully go and tell this cute little girl goodbye. When he got in the van I asked him what her name was. "That's Woren." Warren? "No mom, Woren." Oh yeah W=L in Parker Speak. His new buddy Warren was actually Loren the girl from the first day of school. His crush lasted the whole year. Sounds like it might not be one sided. Last week I saw her mom at girls camp and we talked for a minute. She told me that Loren was trying to decide who she should marry. She told her mom that she can't marry Parker because she doesn't know where he lives. Ah, young love!