Baby Girl's First Day

We've done a lot around here to prepare Julianna for her first day of school and have noticed how big she is getting!!

She got new shoes for school, these cool pink Keds, to add to her shoe collection of about 20 pairs of shoes.

She has turned into such a little girl these last couple of months, instead of a toddler. She likes to dress up now and twirl around in her dresses.

Swining in her tutu. Really, there's no place she can go that her tutu can't.

Have I mentioned that this little girl LOVES to swing??!! She liked the swing a lot as a baby too. These days, she can't get enough of it.

A new thing that Julianna can do, which goes along with big girl status, is buckle herself in her car seat. I really can't believe that she can do that, but she does. She is our VERY independent child and INSISTS on doing just about everything by herself.



Okay, so today was Julianna's first day of preschool. She attended Special Kids on WMFs from 9-12 for 10 mos last year due to her speech and language delay, but was discharged in July due to her progress with her language. So this is her first "real" preschool. She will go on the same days as Chase, T/Th from 9:30-2:30, but today was just a half day.

She was very excited to take her picture out in front of our house before we left for school, just like Chase did on Tuesday. She gave me one shot, and then she was struttin' her stuff back to the van.

Holding hands while walking in to school. Don't worry, this part of the parking lot is closed off to cars, so I'm not being a negligent parent by letting them stroll through the school parking lot. :)

Use your imagination for what the top half of my head looks like, lol.

This was as much as she would pose for me once we got in the classroom. She was all about going through her bag and getting her stuff in order and couldn't be bothered by me- that's my girl!

She quickly found a place where she belonged- where the baby dolls were- and she was then deeply involved in playing and didn't even notice that I was trying to tell her bye.

When I picked her up, her teachers said that she had a good day and that she was such a good helper. That when it came time to pick up their toys, she was right there, cleaning up everything. Her teachers at church tell us that too, as well as did her old preschool teachers. Momma needs a good helper around here! They also said that she was very kind and very sweet.

It was so neat in the car after school to hear Chase and Julianna talking about what all she did at school and to hear how Chase knew the things she was speaking of. He asked her what car she rode in in the gym and she said a fire truck. He said that he didn't think they had a fire truck and asked where she was when she rode it. She replied that she was "in that gym". I just love how they have school in common now and that their school building is in common. It's like they now know about stuff together that Phil and I don't. (I never had this with my brother who was 7 yrs in school behind me.)

She got to pick what she wanted to do for her first day of school treat, and she chose to get ice cream (frozen yogurt) too, like her Bubba did. I gotta say though, I think we'll be pushing for them to go to Baskin Robbin next time. This place is pretty pricey and I actually don't think it's that good. Especially not for the money.

They definitely seemed to enjoy it, but neither one of them finished theirs, which probably says something.

Parker makes an appearance!


There was no time for a walk around the square tonight though- Phil is tutoring our friend's daughter in Alegbra, so we had to get home on time for baths and bedtime. But the weather here this week has been divine, so we've been for walks the past 2 nights and Chase and I played outside all morning today while JuJu was in school and Parker was napping. Just wonderful- after Memphis was listed as the second hottest city in the US this summer! I believe it!! Our $400 utility bills also show it!

Now we're gonna spend tomorrow recovering from a week of "first days" (we also had first day of Bible Study on Wednesday). Julianna has a post-op ophthalmologist appt at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning and then we're gonna chill!