Preschool, Here We Come!

We went to D's Preschool Open House and Meet the Teacher Day on Friday. Declan LOVED school! He got to play on the Fire Truck on the playground and loved being around all of the other kids. His teacher seemed very nice. Her classroom was very cute! D loved playing in the kitchen with the tongs and the play toaster oven. At one point, when I had relaxed enough to talk to another mother from my neighborhood, I heard laughter erupting all around, and I heard D saying "Up, Momma, Up." I couldn't believe it, but the little skinny-pickle's pants had fallen down around his ankles and everyone was cracking up at his little shuffle towards me to help him pull them up. I even put a belt on him that morning trying to avoid such an event!

The classroom is a mix of some 3, but mostly 4 year olds which should be great for D. Older kids will definitely talk more that 3 year olds, so any language modeling he gets is always great. 7 out of 15 kids are on IEPs for speech and language issues and the speech pathologist works right in the room most of the day, except for individualized services (like D's 30 mins.X2 every week). The SLP is a guy, (I've never met a male SLP) and maybe this will interest D. He's only ever worked with women, and this change may be a super thing! As always, we shall see. He got a little Home-School Folder just like the ones I give out at school with forms for me to sign and a school calendar. How fun!