Mother's Day Out Or Bust!!!

Off for our first day! Trying to hold his bag like a big boy!

Before Open House- Tucker wouldn't look at the camera unless he was super close!

What an eventful week! Tucker started Mother's Day Out or school as we call it in our house! We have been preparing for this day for weeks! We have been talking about going to school, picking out school supplies (to use at home at lease- you can't pass up the .25 cent crayons!), and reading lots of books about going to school -Froggy Goes to School, If You Take a Mouse to School, Clifford's First Day of School, Diego Goes to School, and Little People Go To School. Tucker has started twice a week Mother's Day Out at church. He is even in his old nursery room- which makes it all very familar. Plus, last year as we would go to Mommy's weekly bible study, we would walk down the hall and talk about being in the school hallway. We loved looking at all the artwork hanging. Now, we'll get to admire Tucker's artwork in the hallway.

This week was a special schedule week. We had Open House on Tuesday and first day on Thursday. Open House went great. So great that Tucker didn't want to leave. So, after discussing we needed to head home for snack, we left. Yet on the way to the car, our tired little man did not want to cooperate with Mommy and therefore had to be carried to the car-pitching a fit. Took Mommy about 10 minutes of Tucker screaming at the top of his lungs, attempting to hit Mommy and resisting his car seat before we were finally settled into the car. Then the poor thing cried about halfway home before Mommy had to pull over again to fix him in his seat. After that he finally settled down. Of course, this frazzled Mommy a little and worried her about how would he react for his teachers. So, today, we got all ready and talked about going to school with our Larry Ears on (our listening ears according to Veggie Tales). Tucker walked right into his room and never looked back. He had a good day according to his teachers. He was excited to see Mommy and even wanted to be held for a few minutes! We headed to our car where a fire truck sandwich and Nemo gummies awaited us for our ride home (a little special lunch/treat since he won't eat lunch there for another week). Halfway through the sandwich, Tucker was out cold! He had some things to say about school- about his teacher changing his diaper and asking where one of the boys was. Otherwise, it has been interesting trying to get information out of him about his day. Hard to tell what is true from today and what is not (now I know what my Mom (Pat) dealt with all the days I would get in the car from preschool and make up many stories). Either way, sounds like he had a good day! We are thinking we'll go back next week!