September 7, 2010 was Sydney's first day to go to "school". She is going to a mothers day out program at a local church. She goes twice a week. I have been preparing and worrying about this day for several weeks. I was nervous about how she would do and also how I would do leaving her with a stranger! Sydney has only stayed with family up until this day.
Sydney's backpack and lunch box with her clothes she wore the first day of school.
Sydney looks so excited for her first big day! ha! I couldn't get her to look at me to take a picture to save my life! It was rainy and ugly and Sydney just wanted to go back to sleep.
Sydney on her way into class!
I was so proud of her when we got to her class. She ran in and went to this tent and started playing. There was a boy in her class that was clawing the walls and screaming at the top of his lungs while she was playing and totally ignoring him. I thought surely when he was freaking out that Sydney would get scared. It wasn't until I thought I should leave that I started crying and hugging my daughter like I was leaving her forever that she started to cry!! I felt so bad that I lost it in front of her and made her cry. After I left her room I stayed at the church for 30 minutes to make sure she would settle down and stop crying. She did great and the director of the program felt bad and called me mid-morning which scared me to death when I saw the number come up on my phone but she was just calling to let me know that Sydney was playing and having a good time. So sweet of her to call me and make me feel better!
Since I didn't get many pictures before school I took more after they got out. I had everything mapped out in my head of how I wanted things to go that morning and everything feel apart when I did the mommy ugly cry! Here is Whitney and Sydney with their first school papers! I was excited when she had something to bring home!! They made a hand print on a page that had a cute poem about first day of school.
Mommy and Sydney happy to be re-united!! She saw me when the door opened and screamed MOMMY!!! It made my day! Tomorrow is our second day since we missed last Thursday due to being sick. Pray that all goes well and we don't get upset again!
I had to post this picture to give a true representation of her reaction! Before each ride she would give us this look and cry a little bit but as soon as the ride started she was as happy as can be? Maybe she was just hot waiting for the ride to start. HA!
Now we couldn't just let the kids have ALL the fun! Jennifer and I had fun riding down the big bumpy slide! Whitney started crying after we got up not because she didn't like the ride but that she wanted to go again! I thought that was too cute.
Ready to go go go!!!!
We finished up with one last ride with daddy! I didn't get any pictures of her looking at the animals but that was a big hit as well of course!
