PRESCHOOL!!

A couple weeks after Josie started kindergarten, Benjamin started his second year of co-op preschool.  He is in the 2's class this year which means that I work one day of the two and the other is drop-off.  Theoretically, I'm supposed to check him in and leave and then return 2 hours later to pick him up.  The drop off part of the preschool probably won't happen before early spring... he is NO where close to letting me leave without him firmly in tow.
Above, Grandma and Papa were here to send him off on his first day of preschool this year.

Kisses before school

As we were walking out he bends over and says "Daddy, look at my bum"  Nice!

He went to preschool one day a week last year with me there the whole time.  This year he was able to go to the same site where Josie has been going for the past three years.  He was with me when I dropped her off and picked her up and for special events so he is quite familiar with the site and now feels like he is in "big boy" preschool since big sister went here before him. 

Out in front of the building

At home I had a surprise gift on his bed too.  When I said "go look on your bed to find your gift" he had no idea where to look as "his bed" has meant so many different things over his past 2.5 years but seldom has it meant his actual crib/bed.   After a bit of confusion he found his gift on HIS bed.

And loved his new bubble blower!  Here's to a great year and that drop-off days really become drop- off days sometime before spring.