Preschool and Poop

Catchy title...right?!

This week has been much smoother than last week. Why? because I haven't shed one single tear (maybe) over this whole kindergarten thing. Vail is still loving it. She is still getting up way before she needs to and asking if she can get dressed. No Vail you can not get dressed it is still DARK outside. I'm thinking of sending a change of clothes with her to school and her sleeping bag and just letting her spend the night. Joking Jammie! She gets out of the car every morning with her back pack on grabs a hold of her straps and runs into school like a big kid going off to college. Sigh...For those who are curious she went to art last week and loved it so so much. They drew a self portrait and the teacher made a copy of it and sent it home to us. Vail got it out of her back pack and gave it to me. She looked at it and said "I don't know what happened to this picture because I colored it with crayons". This morning she got up doing a fake cough thing. I thought here we go she is going to say she doesn't want to go to school. She told me she didn't feel good so I said I would have to call the school and tell them she wouldn't be there and miraculously she was fine. We will see how many years that trick works. I know there will come a time when she won't want to go to school, but for now I'm trying to soak it in. I figure Katy is going to fight me tooth and nail next year. Also this week I helped with lunch at the school. You know helping all the kindergartners make it through the line. Two words for you MASS CHAOS! I don't know how those lunch ladies do it. It was loud. By loud I mean LOUD. The lunch lady would ask them what they wanted and they would basically stare at her like had no idea how to respond. I told her she should just fix them a plate and tell them that is what they get. Vail got to "order" her food that day and she loved it. Wants to order it everyday now. It stressed me out being in there. Personally I like the idea of bringing my own lunch and just sitting down and eating it. Might be the last time for me to volunteer at lunch. Just saying.

Speaking of Kates she got to meet her PreK teacher today. What! PreK!? I really feel like I'm in the twilight zone. I can't believe that she is doing all the same stuff Vail was just doing. Craziness. She loved her teacher and warmed up a lot faster to the classroom than she did last year. Yay!! So at the preschool while the students are getting acquainted with their teachers the parents all go into the auditorium and have a parents meeting. So Micah and I are sitting in there and he is getting restless because he doesn't care about car lines and lunch boxes he just wants to run around. I take him to the back of the auditorium and he is just walking back and forth back and forth. He proceeds to sit in the corner (you know what is about to happen) and pretty loud in this echoey room says "Mommy I go poo poo". Just stating a fact and letting everyone know whats going on in the back. Awesome!

My PreK girl. Couldn't you just eat her up!

So obviously he has been showing some interest in the potty. That is if you call going to the corner and letting everyone know his business interest. I do. I went out and bought a cool little potty. We have a seat that you put on the regular potty but this is my first time doing this with a boy and I haven't quite mastered making sure everything goes in the toilet...if you know what I mean. So back to the potty chair...he will sit on it that is it. I know he is still young but he obviously knows what he is doing so why not do it in the right spot with a little bit of privacy? I'm not forcing the issue.

Here he is toying with my emotions.

So the kids and I ran into the grocery store to grab one thing I needed for dinner last night. It probably took me longer to get the kids out of the car and into the store to get said item. I'm crossing over the little grassy median to get back to my car and my ankle literally gives out. I mean I don't know if I stepped in a hole or what but down I went. Oh I forgot to mention I was carrying a 30lb baby. Thankfully he was on the opposite side of my body than the ankle that collapsed. So down I went with Micah and my grocery bag. I somehow put my hand down to save myself. Now I'm in an awkward position still holding Micah and the bag and my ankle and hand are throbbing. Vail says "are you ok mommy?" Yes I'm ok. A little embarrassed but ok. V: "You've got to watch where you are going". Thanks honey I will remember that next time there is a skitch in the ground that I blindly trip over. NOW GET IN THE CAR!!

I didn't really yell at her after she said that. I think I may have said something like you're right. Then Micah started crying because I think his head banged into my shoulder as we went down or I scared the bagibies out of him.