First Day of Preschool

I'll have more vacation photos later today, but we'll take a break from that to celebrate Fiona's first day at preschool. She's picked out her blanket, folder and lunchbox and woke up bright and early this morning excited for her first day. Here's a photo from right before we walked out the door; New Yorkers will note that this is obviously the morning since you can see Pat Kiernan summarizing what's in the newspapers on the TV behind her.

We just dropped her off, and there were a few tears--which were actually reassuring. She's been so excited about this day for months and never showed any doubt whatsoever about starting at a new place that when the moment hit where we were dropping her off and she suddenly burst out in tears and clutched on to her Mommy for dear life it was like being reminded that she is, in fact, a normal child.

Her teacher, Miss Annie, let us stay with her for a few minutes while she acclimated and even made sure to let Fiona choose which music to put on for everybody to listen to. After about 5-10 minutes Fiona was playing happily with toy babies with one of the other girls in her preschool and when we told her we were leaving she gave us hugs and went right back to playing. For all I know she's bawling her eyes out right now, but she makes friends quickly and we're looking forward to hearing all about her day (garbled a narrative as I'm sure we'll get) over dinner this evening.