The Coleman Girls Take on Preschool (and Gymnastics)

This was the first week of school in the Coleman house and what a big week it was! I'm getting a glimpse of all that chauffeuring Mom stuff you always hear about now that Blake is going to school FOUR days a week and she has started gymnastics lessons once a week for an hour. It is a big change for us because she has only done two days in the past. She seemed to like it and went back to school with the same enthusiasm she usually does. I am so proud of what a great student she is and how much she is already excelling at for her age (I think she's taking after Daddy in the scholar department... good for her). I also admire her confidence and her ability to make friends. To continue my proud Mommy moment I must now inform you that Emma is following in her sister's footsteps. She had her very first day of preschool today and walked straight into a classroom of crying babies like she owned the place. She walked right past them, looking at them like "hey, what's the big deal?" and sat right down and started playing. She should feel like she owns the place since we're there CONSTANTLY. I feel like we spend a lot of time walking in and out of St. Andrew UMC. Emma is already very comfortable with all of the nursery staff from her time there during church and Mom to Mom, but now she's also quite used to dropping off and picking up big sister for school. Last year and the year before she was so little I usually carried her in to take Blake and pick her up, but now it's another story. She likes to casually stroll down the hallways waving and saying "hi" to random strangers, then she stops and says "baby" at every single stroller and car seat she sees, then she stops at the water fountain and asks for (demands) help getting a drink and then we can finally make it to Blake's classroom (and on then on Thursdays we can go on to her room). The whole process of getting in and out of there seems like it takes a million years. It is all very cute though and Emma now has many fans. She knows how to get noticed. I'll give her that. Luckily, Chris is taking Blake for me on Mondays and Wednesdays. Not to make any of this sound like some kind of hardship. I am so happy to have the chance to take Blake and pick her up and spend this time with Emma. It is one of the many perks of being a stay-at-home Mom that I appreciate greatly and don't want to take for granted (I'm sure looking back on spending 10 minutes a day with Emma at the water fountain and then carrying her out screaming will seem a lot sweeter when I look back on it). So here are our pictures of our fantastic firsts.