Izzie's First Day of Mother's Day Out

That's right :( I can't believe she is old enough to be doing this already. I was really nervous about taking her (having nightmares the night before about myself being lost at school!) because the open house/meet the teachers didn't go so well. I basically had to drag her in the room then, so I anticipated the same response.

For weeks, we talked a lot about school and the fun things she would do there. I even kept telling her a story that I made up about a baby mouse and his mama mouse, and how he got sad when mama mouse left him at school, but he ended up having fun, blah, blah, blah, she came back and they hugged and were happy.

She willingly got dressed in her bathing suit, or baby suit as she calls it, because Wednesdays are always water days. How much fun is that?! Here she is all ready to go. I wanted a picture with her backpack, but she didn't and I didn't want to push it and upset her!


So we got to school at the same time that Jack did (he is in her class) and she was happy to walk up with Jack and Brandon. But when we got to the classroom door...just as I expected, she put the brakes on. I had to pull her into the room :( She started whining and fussing and I tried showing her the little book nook, and I got her to even smile a little bit. But when I stood up, she wrapped her arms around my leg so tightly that I couldn't even walk. Break. My. Heart. I started to tear up but had to try and regain my composure. After all, if mommy is crying then the place must be awful, right? Oh, but alas! A few tears slipped out while I had my back turned. The teacher suggested I leave but gave me her cell number so I could check on my princess after a while. It was so hard to walk out of that room while she was calling after me.

I waited outside the door and just listened to her cry for a bit. Then I went and paid tuition and went back to the classroom to see/hear if she was still crying. I couldn't hear anything so I peeked in and saw her sitting on one of her teacher's laps just kind of looking sad. I called to check on her 30 minutes later and was told that she had calmed down and was fine.

When I went to pick her up I learned that the air conditioning had gone out and they had to move the kids to another room. A pretty crazy first day! My sister had gotten there before I had, and of course Izzie spotted her in the hallway. So, by the time I walked up, my sister was holding her (Jack was still napping). She gave me my favorite, "Mama! I missed you!" and gave me a tight hug around the neck. The teachers said that she stopped crying at the beginning of the day, but did need to be held a lot. She even took a 40 minute nap, which really surprised me. But my mom pointed out that if she fell asleep there, she must have felt safe and secure. It was so chaotic with the switching of the rooms that I didn't really get to talk to the teachers as much as I wanted to. Its just so weird to go from knowing every single move that she makes to knowing virtually next to nothing about her day. Oh, to be a fly on the wall!

She painted me this little fish. I could not get her to look at the camera and show me the fish at the same time. These pictures pretty much sum up how tired she was!

While I had my mommy time, Lisa and I went to the mall. After not even three months of having two kids, it was really weird to be out with just one. I felt like I was missing an arm or something. We stopped by Disney and I got her this Ariel dress. I wanted to have a surprise for her when we got home. At the end of the day, she said that she had fun, although I do anticipate her crying pretty regularly when I drop her off. When I asked her what she did during the day, she just kept repeating: little nap, no running and stopped crying. I think she kept repeating the stopped crying part because she heard me ask her teacher about that. One time she even said, "stopped crying like the baby mouse". So maybe baby mouse helped after all :)