First day of Preschool

Today was a big day in our house. Kellyn started preschool. She has been begging to go to school for the last year, but the last week or so she has had some obvious anxiety about school. She said she did not want to go to school because her teacher would be mean and that she was nervous about making new friends. I acknowledged those fears but ensured her that it would be great and she would love school.

This morning she did not want to go to school unless I was going to stay with her. I finally distracted her enough with her cool new book bag that she HAD to have. I tried to get her to get a hello kitty bag, or a princess bag, but nope. Cars it is. Below is a picture of her bag. 

She finally got excited for school as he were leaving and arriving at the school. When we walked into the school she looked at Ryan and said "this is my school! Do you like it?". We put her bag in her locker and she walked right up to her teacher (whom she had never met) and said "Hi Miss Dana, I'm Kellyn". She then went into her class without telling us bye or anything.

I knew if we went into her class to tell her bye that she would not want us to leave and would cry so I told Ryan that we needed to leave before she sees us. He did not want to leave. I literally had to force him to leave. Then, as we were walking out the door we heard a little girl crying. It sounded like it may have been Kellyn. Ryan had a look a pure sadness and a need to go in and rescue her. I told him that it may not be her and that we needed to leave- she will be fine. 

While waiting to pick her up the Director came up to me and was talking about how Kellyn is so 'out going' We all know that this could be a good or a bad statement. She went on to tell me that she was talking to Kellyn while she was working on a project and Kellyn bluntly told her that she was in her way. She was laughing, but hopefully this isn't the first of many 'talks' we have with her teachers about he attitude.

When she came out of her class she was excited to see me and seemed unharmed-emotionally and physically. I was asking if she made friends, who she sat by, what kind of snack she had and so on and she kept answering all my questions with 'no'. Then she finally said, "I'm tired and do not want to talk to you about school". So unfortunately, I have no other details about her first day of school.