Last day of Preschool

Today was Gina's last day of preschool. She has been counting the days for the past week until the last day of preschool and the first day of kindergarten. She has been at the daycare/preschool since she was 4 months old and has really thrived there. I know her teachers are sad to see her go. She excitedly picked out Dora popsicles for her class today and she helped Andrew get dressed after I took off his pajama top. Andrew put on his own mismatched socks while Gina helped with his shirt and shorts.

When I picked her up this afternoon, she was set to go with a huge binder filled with various projects from the last year or so. Another bag was filled the odds and ends from her cubby (a missing pair of socks, a ribbon for her hair, several hair bands) as well as all the pictures she has drawn over the past week (always a lot of paper). And of course, we couldn't forget her stuffed lamb. We did forget her princess lunch box and she was VERY unhappy that we couldn't go back to get it. At that point we had exactly 25 minutes to go pick up Dylan and I knew we needed every minute. And Andrew is going to daycare tomorrow so we would be able to pick it up then.

Yesterday Dylan had his first day at his new daycare, a family run daycare that my friend Noemi has used for her kids. He was fine when I dropped him off and was happily playing when I picked him up. He doesn't like formula and I haven't been able to pump milk for him so I've been a little concerned that he will get enough calories during the day but I've been fortifying his various pureed food with formula which he doesn't seem to mind.

With the new schedule, I will have three different dropoffs and pickups with the three kids. It definitely seems like a wacky schedule (as I've been told by everyone who I have mentioned it to). I even decided to go to work on Tuesday mornings, my one half day, which means four days of driving to Palo Alto. Vic may be able to drop Andrew off in the mornings some days since he works nearby but it still means three different pickup points.