Not too cool for school - yet!

Vera had her first day of school yesterday.  As in drop off, mommy leaves school. 

It was a grey and rainy day out but...

She looked great!

She did great!

She is the greatest little girl a mommy could ever ask for!

I just love her sooo much!

She was super excited to have her own "backpack" and yes, she sings the Dora backpack song as she runs around with it...

We dropped Jonah off at school and then we drove to her school.

During the drive we were singing our "going to school" song and she was very very excited!

We got there and she was a bit worried about me leaving.  We played for a bit and then it was clean up time and circle time... Vera knows all the words to the "clean up" song and loves cleaning up.  The teacher and I decided that was my cue to leave... Vera also understands everything people say so she totally knew I was going to leave.  Her lips quivered and her eyes teared up - I gave her a huge hug and told her I loved her very much and that I was so proud of her that she was a big girl just like Jonah and she was at her school - and that mommy always comes back!  She looked at me and said "big girl"  - her teacher picked up her and Vera gave her a big hug and said"bye bye" to me and I walked out!  I watched for a bit through the window and she was happily sitting in her teacher's lap.  I spent the next 60 minutes at Barnes & Noble paying bills... When I returned to her school she was in the gym, running, playing and laughing and then sat in her teacher's lap for goodbye circle time! 

Her teacher said she did great.  Except for the fact she had her pacifier the whole time and I think she got the teacher to pick her up a lot - my baby girl is quite the school girl!  (We are working on the pacifier thing...)

Truth is my baby girl is not such baby any more... not sure how the second day will go... but I may be the one with the tears in my eyes this time... they grow up so damn fast!

Happy Tuesday!

Tea for Three @ our Pretend Picnic!

Yesterday it rained!!! And rained, and rained and rained...

And did I report that it rained some more.

We were inside for the day.  Mama was away on business this week and I figured we needed to pace ourselves after our busy weekend.

Kaleidoscope Time!

First thought: Time to break out some of those birthday presents that Vera got but I had yet to give to the kids...

Second thought: There were two presents that would make a perfect play picnic! + We have a big open empty space in our living room (yes this a another reference to our lack of furniture...) = imaginary play time!

I got out a big tablecloth and threw it on the floor.  I told Jonah to gather up all our play food so that we can have picnic - he was slightly intrigued.

I opened up the Fisher Price Laugh & Learn Tea Set (see here) and the Leap Frog Learning Picnic Basket (see here).  We already have the Fisher Price Learning Sounds Picnic Basket (see here).

And that was it.  The kids really had fun.  Jonah was obsessed with pouring the tea from the tea pot (it makes this little "pouring sound" when you do so).  Vera was really into drinking the tea from the cups and trying to walk around with the picnic baskets.  Jonah was making all kinds of sandwiches for us.  There were these cute little cupcakes that both the kids were pretend eating.  It was quite the picnic.

We played until lunch time.  Then we had our own real picnic in the kitchen.  Fried eggs, cheese on toast sandwiches and cantaloupe!  After all that pretend picnicking the kids ate all their lunch.  This is not the norm, so it made me very happy!

We left the picnic blanket out, and we had at least 3 more picnics today... as it was still raining... we left it out again as they are predicting plenty more rain this week...

Drink it up Vera!

more please

think I might be ready for lunch

off to the kitchen