School Days

So the girls' first day of Playschool was yesterday morning. I woke them up early around 7:30 and started getting them ready. I was getting a little nervous for them. When it was time to go I took their pictures on our deck(pictures below). Annika (in green) cooperated nicely but Erika DID NOT WANT HER PICTURE TAKEN. In fact in this picture she is giving me crap and telling me not to take pictures of her. She also is not feeling very good which made this whole morning not a pleasant one.
We get to school and find their pegs to hang their backpacks and coats. They were very excited to get their new shoes on! The teacher, Mrs. Harrish, gave them name tags to wear which Erika thought was pretty cool. They were really excited when they found the book center. Then Mrs. Harrish asked all the kids to sit down on a rug with animals on it for circle time. The girls didn't want to sit on the rug of course so they sat on my lap in a chair while we listened to Mrs. Harrish explain a few things. She then took all the kids on a tour of the room and this is when I thought would be a good time to flee the scene. I told the girls I was going now to go buy milk and I will be back to pick them up. They were okay with that until I started for the door and then they started to cry. It broke my heart but I knew better than to go back and try to make them stop. So I headed to Heather's for a visit and had the strongest coffee I've ever tasted, and waited until 11:15 to go pick up the girls.
When I got back to the school all the kids were lined up at the door in the classroom with their coats and backpacks on all ready to go. I guess they pretty much read books the whole time, they ate their snack (very good!), and made a craft (very, very good!!)Erika was the calendar helper so she got to put up some numbers on it. Not sure what Annika did. So I guess they had a pretty good morning.
Now they don't go back until Tuesday again which sucks they have to wait so long. But then it will be every Tuesday and Thursday morning which I can't wait for! Don't get me wrong, I love my children, but sometimes us mommies need a little time for ourselves!