Not off to a great start....

"Pato" the Puppet looking sad
....at preschool.

In fact, that's putting it rather mildly.

We had a great first day. I breathed a sigh of relief that Emma seemed to love her new class and teachers. She chatted all the way home the first day about all of the things that she had done, how much fun she had. Emma's little folder with her daily calendar had a huge red smiley face on the first day, showing that she did all that she was suppose to do, that she listened, cleaned up, kept her hands to herself, and played well with others.

I was so proud. Really, i was thrilled with that goofy red smiley face on her calendar!! You would have thought that i earned the goofy red smiley face...i kinda did, didn't i? I mean, sorta, right?

Day 2, you ask? How did Day 2 go for our Tot-In-Training?

Not so much of doing the things that she was suppose to do.

Emma hit one of her teachers when she was trying to instruct her one-on-one. And when the teacher told Emma that hitting was not acceptable, my dear imp of a child covered her ears with her hands.

Then, she continued to ignore the teacher and colored the floor with her markers.

Off to time-out she went.

No smiley face for Day 2.

Oh, yes, please, ask me about Day 3....

On Day 3, Emma boinked a little girl in the head with a dinosaur during clean-up time because the little girl grabbed one of "Emma's" dinosaurs.

Yeah.

No smiley face for Day 3, either.

Thank God that there were only three days of school this week.

The teachers were so very nice to me, and invited me to come "visit" to watch how Emma does if i wanted to. I'm pretty sure that they knew how horrified i was by the events of Day 2 & Day 3. They wanted to make sure that we were on the same program of time-out and taking away privileges, which we were. I was so thankful that Emma's teachers are the kind of women that they are....gracious and kind to Mommies who want to disappear into the floor when stuff like this happens.

But then again, maybe they are worried that on Monday, Emma will poke some child's eye out with a crayon or attack one of them with a large plastic dinosaur...

Emma was so shocked to see that she had two non-smiley faces! How could this be?!? She actually asked me to show her the calendar so she could see for herself that she got another non-smiley face.

"Mama! Why'd i get a 'nother sad face?!?! Are you swure??"

"ummm, Emma, you hit a little girl over the head with a dinosaur today, remember? We are not to hit ANYONE, EVER, period. Just wait till i tell your Daddy...."

"Otay, Mommy, it be okay. We swhould NEBER, NEBER HIT ANYBODY, right?"

sigh....

And can you believe that i have already resorted to the "just-wait-till-i-tell-your-Daddy" threat already?? On Day 3?!? I was hoping to save that line for much, much later.

I can't WAIT to see what next week holds for us, can you?