Edzèa had her first day of Junior Kindergarten today. I will post the pics when Tim helps me with my computer memory problem sometime this weekend. I wanted to post about her first day before I forgot.

She was extremely excited and had a hard time getting to sleep last night. I think she finally fell asleep at 9:30 and then was up at 6:30 this morning.

This was her first time on the school bus. It picks her up next door to us. We met our neighbour and his son Carter (gr.3) and another boy, Mitchell who were waiting for the bus too. Nana was with Neve in the van waiting as we were going to follow the bus to Edzea’s school. Rohan waited at the bus stop with us. She was a little hesitant to get on the bus even though she’d been saying she was excited about it.

I finally had to give her a little push up the stairs and luckily there were 3 other little girls from Senior Kindergarten in the other front seats. We followed the bus to school and I got out to meet her coming out of the bus. She was happy to see me but happier to see her teacher and follow her teacher into the classroom.

We had them bring her back home today instead of daycare as it was her first day. Nana and I and Neve were waiting for her at home. She told us she had a “good day”. She played in the playground before going into school. Her inside shoes that we bought her “don’t really feel very good Mommy”. Her teacher sang, played guitar and piano for them to clean up. No she didn’t have a french lesson today but a guest came in to class and she couldn’t understand a word that she said. She later told us that the guest spoke french but her teacher doesn’t.

The were all told to draw for a little while and then their storytime was to talk about their pictures. ” No one else drew a house or people Mommy. They all kind of scribbled” eye roll. “Actually none of their drawings were very pretty, just scribbled. I didn’t like their drawing. Serious, they just scribbled. They are all young.” We then told her that it was like Rohan and to tell them that you liked their colours or lines.

” I know Mommy. I’m just saying. I’m just telling you. I will be nice.”

Loves her teacher, Mrs. Cardy. We love her too. She’s musical. Interested in having more art history projects in the classroom which I am going to volunteer to help with/teach.

Liked her snack. Wants to help with snack in future. Great day overall.

Rohan is at daycare. We couldn’t find Edzea’s shoes when we needed to meet the school bus…they weren’t where she left them. I asked Rohan where he put them. He pretended to ignore us and after a few more requests to find them. He told us that he put them in the basement. I looked down the stairs and they were thrown down the stairs. It was his way of rebelling. He was NOT happy that Edzea was going to school and he had to go to daycare today. He screamed and clung to me when we got to daycare.

I’m going to pick him up on his own today and Nana will look after Edzea and Neve. I’ll have something special for him.

Oh, when we met her teacher on Wednesday…first things out her mouth when she was touring the classroom were “I recognize two of the books here. We have them at home. “Tiptoe into kindergarten” and “The Kissing Hand.” The teacher raised her eyebrows.