A New Routine

Part of our settling into our new home over the past few weeks has been finding a new “school” for Julia.  Originally we were going to hold off on enrolling her, thinking that it would be nice to get her settled and let her have time with us before she started at a new place.  But within a week of us moving to RI Julia was asking where her new school was and when she was going.  We were a little surprised and I guess hadn’t fully realized how much she enjoyed going to the Frog Pond in VA even if it was only one day a week.  So we began a search for a new place and found a wonderful nursery school called The Little Red Hen only about 5 minutes from our house.  I knew as soon as I walked up to it when I went to check it out that it would be a good place for Julia and all of our interactions so far have confirmed that.  As their youngest class is three year olds Julia could not start until she was 2 years and 9 months.  Luckily for us that was yesterday and today Julia went to school!

She has been talking about it since we took her to visit there a couple of weeks ago and was very excited last night and this morning.  We weren’t exactly sure how it was going to go as her drop-offs at the Frog Pond had occasionally involved tears but she settled in as soon as we got to the Little Red Hen this morning.  She followed her teacher, Mrs. Drolet, to the coat rack, and hung up her things and then quickly claimed a seat at a table to draw with markers with the other kids.  Andrew and I squared away some paperwork and then went over to say goodbye.  Julia barely gave us a glance as she held her hand up and waved goodbye!  She was still happy when we picked her up and told me quite a bit about her morning when she woke up from her nap this afternoon.  Hopefully, our new Tuesday and Thursday morning routine will continue to be as successful as today for our new little chick!