The Night Before... School!

School starts tomorrow (with students) and I just can't believe that another summer has come and gone. Cullen has his first day of preschool tomorrow, I'm a little nervous for him. On the first day of preschool a parent gets to go with their kid. So Nick will be missing part of his first day of school to attend Cullen's school. Nick lost in paper-rock-scissors, just kidding he volunteered to go and since that meant I didn't have to make sub plans I obliged.

This might sound shallow of me but I sort of hope for Cullen's sake that his teacher is perhaps nice looking. Cullen has been practicing his "teacher greeting" for some time now. They are never the same and interesting to say the least. I've been trying to steer him clear of pick-up sounding lines but his seem to veer in that direction. Such as "Hi, Ms. ----, I'm Cullen and you are cute-ifully!" I'm anxious to hear what he actually says when the BIG moment arrives, hopefully he gets shy and doesn't say anything:)

Geremu has also been practicing his greeting for Cullen's teacher. I've tried to gently break it to him that he is not going to school with Cullen but he doesn't want to take no for an answer. Cullen has played his role in this as well by begging me to, "Please, let Geremu go to my school with me." I did sign Geremu up for a class at the Y 2-days a week so he gets to experience some sort of school.

Cullen is a little worried that he won't have any friends and he doesn't want to have to be friends with the "ugly kids". It has taken me numerous "You need to be nice and friendly with everyone" talks to finally figured out that by "ugly" he is talking "mean". I made the mistake during one of the talks of saying, "kill 'em with kindness". Lesson learned, NEVER say that to a 4 year old, I was doing a lot of back peddling trying to explain that expression after he asked me, "Who do I have to kill?"

So the adventures of a preschool parent officially begin tomorrow!