Naptime Blog

It was recently back to preschool for my Finleypotamus. He just loves riding the big yellow school bus. He started the day after his third birthday in April and attended a little over five weeks last school year. This will be his first full year.

During the summer, we enrolled him in a great local program called P.A.L.S. It was two days a week and taught by a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) and a teacher from the school district. The P.A.L.S. program features a theme-based curriculum designed to teach academic, language, and social skills to preschool children, ages 2 and a half through five. If you are in the Houston area, I highly recommend it as a way to help kiddos retain skills from the school year or just interact and have fun with others. He LOVED it and really gained a love of music and started interacting a lot more.

I snapped the photo at the top of this post right after he got on the bus his first day back this year. He doesn’t look super smiley, because he was ready to go to school and was over posing for my photos. I think he enjoys it a lot. I say I think he does, because he doesn’t talk a lot, but he shows his excitement, joy and happiness through his smile and body movements. He gave his father and I many hugs and kisses before school and said “Ah zoozoo” (I love you) over and over. He is sweet, precious, innocent and kind beyond words. He sure is growing up fast (but not fast enough to fill out his new back to school jeans… oops!).

I just love how kind and gentle the bus drivers and attendants are with him and the other little ones in their care. Here is the attendant helping my little dude off of the bus today:

His little brother enjoyed time with Mommy and Daddy that day. My husband had the day off. I think Kierbear will enjoy the alone time in the mornings. He started a two day a week program at our local church recently as well. He is excited to carry a backpack and lunch and have the opportunity to play and learn with other children his age. I will enjoy having a few hours of alone time with him three mornings a week to laugh and giggle at his comedic antics. He is my entertainer and keeps us in stitches daily.

Tell me all about your kiddos’ first day. I would love to see photos and hear stories from proud parents. Aren’t these children such blessings? Praying that all kids have a wonderful and educational 2010-2011 school year!