First Day of Preschool!

Today was THE day. Mabelle was definitely excited about starting school, she got up and had her customary slept-all-night ice cream breakfast, then refused any other food. She usually eats a regular breakfast, but wasn't hungry..maybe she was nervous and just couldn't eat ;) Then we had to get dressed, all of us. There started our downward spiral. She wasn't happy with her clothes (even though she picked them), wasn't happy with her hair (even though she picked the style)...didn't want to brush her hair, her teeth or do anything. It was a whining, screaming, crying battle for about an hour. She finally started to get excited again and forget all the control problems she was having. She helped make her lunch, then Daddy did something to interrupt the excitement (prob just suggested a way to load up the lunchbox), and she started crying again. At this point, Daddy and Mommy were over the tantrums and ready for school. We were really worried how dropoff would go if all these little things were causing tantrums. Loaded up the van with the whole brood and off we went, with a not-so-happy preschooler. It only takes 10mnts to get there, so I had to think fast...Katy Perry & Pink!!! Yup, the answer to our prayers, that pepped her up and gave us our happy, excited little girl back. YAY! Dropoff was great, she kissed us both and eagerly walked in line with the other kids to a classroom and sat on the carpet eager to get started. I yelled that I would pick her up after lunch and she didn't even turn around...she said ok, and waved me off with her back to me. And surprisingly enough, there were no tears. No Mabelle tears and no Mama tears (well 3 or 4 10mnts after I dropped her off, but that really doesn't count, right?? LOL). Jason even commented that he was very proud of me for holding it together (I really give credit to those early morning tantrums for helping out :).

Dressing herself for school...before anything upsetting happened.

Cash trying to steal her new 'spahkly' shoes.

Oh...the look. This was after several fits...you can see a tear on her left cheek and obviously the look she's giving me is not a happy one ;)

My happy girl is back!!! Twirling and showing us how beeeeautiful she is!

Packing her lunch up..notice the spiderman AND princess containers.

Oh yeah, she was happy to pose for me outside.

Even wanted a pic with "all of her family", but that didn't turn out. It's on Daddy's camera and it's just of our heads. LOL!

In front of her school, the sun was too bright and she was ready to go in.

Waiting to line up with her classmates.

And school begins!!!
No tears from Daddy.

No tears from Cashy.

And no tears from Mama..altho I was ready with no makeup and my big sunglasses!!

When we picked her up, she told us about her day (we really expected to get and "eeeeh, I dont' remember" response)...but in a nutshell: she went potty twice, her friend only cried a little bit then had a fun time, she got to play outside, do art projects WITH GLUE (pictured below), her teacher (Ms. Malika) was sooo nice, she sat while the teacher read Bambi, she played on the computer, and she LOVED preschool. She even said "I love preschool, I didn't know it would be so much fun!".