Alli's First Day of Preschool

August 20, 2008 ~ Alli's first day of preschool at Episcopal Day School.

Alli was very excited on her first day of school! Her teacher, Mrs. Scroggs, has been teaching at EDS for 52 years, this being her 53rd. She is amazing! Several of our Augusta friends had her when they were 3 and attended EDS. The assistant teacher, Mrs. Arthur, is a friend of mine, and she is just terrific and so creative. Alli loves both of them!

In the parking lot, outside of "The Village," where the 3 year olds' classes are. Alli goes 3 days a week (Mon., Wed., Fri) from 8am until 12:30pm. Daddy, Mommy, and Boots all walked her into her classroom for the first time and helped her find her cubby. Such a big girl!!

Alli's new backpack ~ she picked it out, herself!

Alli talks about school non-stop these days. Every day when I pick her up, she asks me if I can just leave here there "forever." One of her favorite things at school is circle time in the morning, when "Douglas" talks to the kids. Douglas is a puppet that has been around for a while, apparently, and Alli loves to hear what Douglas has to say. She also seems to particularly enjoy Catechesis and Spanish, but she also enjoys Gym time and Library. They definitely keep the kids busy with Science, Music, Art ~ you name it! She loves it and loves telling me her favorite part of each day. They assign "work jobs" every day, which is fun, and Alli recently go to be the Mail Person; they emailed a picture, so I will post it soon in another post. The only thing she hasn't loved about school has been the color block she was assigned for circle time. The children are all assigned a color block on the carpet,which helps with keeping everyone in order (ie ~ all blues line up at the door, etc.). If you know Alli, you know that her absolute favorite color is RED. Well, she was assigned PURPLE, and was not very happy about it for 2 days. We have really been playing-up purple as being a fabulous color. She has apparently "adjusted" to being purple, although she will still remind anyone who asks that it isn't her favorite ~ RED is her favorite. :)

Before school started, Alli got to go meet her teachers and see her classroom. Our little Blue Eyes (as Papa calls her) could not have been more excited!

Boots started Mother's Day Out at our church for this year a week before Alli started EDS, so Alli and I got some good Mommy-and-Alli Time. One of those days, we went to Build-A-Bear. It was a special treat we had wanted to do with Maddox before the Greers moved, but it just never happened. Alli had lots of fun picking out her bear and helping stuff her. I think her favorite part, though, was giving her bear an "air bath."

After choosing a very prissy outfit for her bear ~ complete with a tutu, metallic sandals, and sunglasses ~ Alli and "Teddy" posed for a picture.

Mommy-and-Alli Day continued with lunch in the food court (huge slices of pizza) and a cookie monster cookie with lots of blue icing for dessert!

We do arts and crafts a lot for Mommy-Alli Time in the mornings when Elizabeth is taking her nap.

Blue Eyes

This is actually how Alli sleeps. She piles a TON of stuff into her bed ~ books, dolls, and anything else that she can haul up there ~ and sleeps. Before falling asleep, though, she loves to read to her dolls and stuffed animals.

Our sweet girl.... We are so proud of her! She is growing like a weed, and she is a sweet, thoughtful little girl. She is truly empathetic, and she loves her baby sister. Her latest thing to tell us (quite regularly) is, "I don't want another family! I want my Mommy, my Daddy, and my Baby forever!"