Last day of preschool for this year

Remember what Isabel looked like on her first day of school last September? Looking back now, she looks like such a tiny baby in these photos to me!

Well, look how much she has grown up in the past 8 months! This is a photo of Isabel and her teacher, Miss Debbie, from the half-day Christian preschool program that she attends one day a week. As you know, Isabel is actually now in school every day, instead of cared for in our home, but it has been important to Luke and I to keep her in this faith-based program one day a week instead of having her in her regular school every day. She will continue in this program next year along with her best friend, Camille. The girls' two little brothers, Josiah and Levi, will likely follow the year after that. The two girls will also be attending a program this summer one day a week at Miss Debbie's house, which they are very much looking forward to! Thank you, staff and teachers of the Children's Praise 'N Rainbows program. It has been a great year!

Smart girl starts preschool!

Well, our little girl has been off to "school" for a little over a month now. (I know, I know, you can all be mad at me for not updating the blog in FOREVER!) She started in a program for a half-day one day a week, called Children's Praise N Rainbows. I was a little apprehensive about how she would do in a new, larger group of kids, and being left there by Mommy (plus being picked up about an hour after she normally lays down for a nap), but she has been doing PHENOMENAL! She has not shed a single tear when being dropped off...not one! And when she gets home, yes, she is VERY tired, but she still has been taking a good (later) nap in the afternoon after school.

My favorite thing that she does, that is school-related, is that every time you ask her, "Isabel, do you have school today?", she responds "Uh-huh!" and then when you ask "What do you get to bring to school?" she says, without fail, "Bah-pah!" (backpack). How adorable is that?

Here are two photos of her before her second day. The first day she was being anti-photo, but I figured we would try again the next week, and she cooperated QUITE well!