Life In Kindergarten

Today was day 3 of Kindergarten and it was the day when we had to drop Lily at the gate and not accompany her to her class room. She woke up this morning announcing that today was drop off day and she was very giddy about it. We had already made arrangements with my friend and neighbour, Liz to drive the girls to school in one car as her little one is still having a very difficult time with everything. All was well, the girls were very chatty in the car and loved the fact that they were dressed alike and had matching book bags and lunchboxes but that is where the cheery stuff ended.

Liz parked the car and we walked the girls to the gate and all was well. Lily shot through the gate with barely as much a glance over her shoulder and Isabella followed suit but suddenly realised that her mummy wasn't with her and she panicked and ran back to the gate, clamped her arms around Liz's legs and burst into tears. It ripped my heart out. It is the worst thing when the little ones don't want to go to school because they have to and you have to stick to your guns. After a moment the teacher came over and removed Isabella and we made a hasty exit but not before we were both in tears. Isabella didn't see us sobbing, we managed to hold it together long enough to hide behind the gate.

Lily, on the other hand loves school. She told me yesterday that she is so glad to be back at school and learning again. I have to say that I am so relieved but wish that I could be more of a morning person cos this being up at 6am following the wonderful vacation that we just had is murderous. I get everything ready the night before but mornings just aren't my schtick. How do you parents with more than one child do it!

Talking of vacations, which we weren't but we are now we flew from London directly to Massachusetts and spent some time with our wonderful friends, Fran and Shell before heading back here. Lily loves her aunties Fran and Shell which isn't really surprising since they are both nuts and love to spoil Lily. Shell turned the B.I.G. 40 on the day we arrived so we had a great time at her birthday party. Lily jumped straight into the pool before realising that the water was a tad bit cooler than the water in our pool here.

Fran took us all to the Peabody Essex Museum which is geared for kids and was really fabulous. They currently have there the Yin Yu Tang house which, in case you don't know, is a 200 yr old house from Huang Cun in China. It was bought over piece by piece and then re built at the museum. It was truly fascinating and you can check it out here

Lily and Her Auntie Shell

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Lily looking pretty cocky at the fact that her and Daddy have walked far out on the rocks!

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Lily hard at work in Fran's office.Actually that would be DR Curtains office or at least he thinks it is but if you ask Fran it is her office. LOL

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Lily and Jacob trying to scare all of the Seagulls off of the beach. Guess what? They were not successful those birds are even more cocky than Lil!


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Lily and Silly Auntie Shell. Shell how come your mother dodged all the camera lenses? Send me a candid one if her and I'll post it!

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