1st Day of School for Hunter

October 1, 2012.

Hunter started pre-school today.  He attends the special education pre-school through Alpine School District.  He goes to Pony Express Elementary.  His Teacher is Miss Gina.  The aides are Miss Lisa and Miss Lindsey. 

Hunter on his first day of school.  He is happy to be outside.

Justin and Fisher were so excited for Hunter.  Poor Fisher thought he was going to school too an d wanted his backpack on like his brothers.  I am so proud of my 3 boys.

 

Hunter and Fisher in their awesome new BYU backpacks from Grandma Clark.  They even had their names on them.  They were so cute.  I wish they were doing school together. 

 

Here we are at the school.  I was a nervous wreck and Hunter was just excited as ever...a little confused but ready to go.

 

Hunter's teacher called me to let me know that Hunter had fallen asleep!  What?!?  He was having a nap on his first day of school and I couldn't believe it!  I went to the school to get him and decided to see what he would do if I just left him.  He slept about 55 minutes and then started to wake up. 

 

He woke up happy and didn't even see me.  Miss Lisa (left) brought him some toys and played with him. Miss Gina (right) came to check on him.  I was so excited that he woke up happy.  I was just standing off to the side so he wouldn't see me.

 

Not long after he woke up class was over.  So I just took him home then.  Here he is walking down the school hallway.  He looked so big!

 

Here he is coming out of the school all by himself.

 

 

This was a very hard day for me.  I was so nervous to leave him.  Up until this point, I had only left Hunter with Grandmas and my sister(once) and a friend (once for 20 minutes) and now I was leaving him with complete strangers. I dropped him off and just had to leave before I broke down.  Hunter never cries when I leave him so I wasn't worried about that. However, when I went to leave he reached for me and whined.  I was not ready for that and it made me get teary.  I had to just turn and walk out of the room.  I stood in the hallway and cried.  I almost went back and got him but then reminded myself that this was good for Hunter to experience.  So I peeked in the window and saw that he was doing good and liking story time. 

 

I was a nervous wreck and kept my phone in my hand waiting or the phone call saying that he was holding his breath or something....then the phone rang and I about fell on the floor when I recognized the number of Hunter's teacher.  When I said hello this is what I heard, "Nothing is wrong. He just feel asleep."  Ha, I almost laughed out loud.  I was not expecting that.  Miss Gina said that he just went to sleep on Miss Lisa's lap during song time.  He had crawled around all over outside and tired himself right out.  I told Miss Gina that I would be there and pick him up.  (I was in Lehi with Fisher at Itty-Bitty-Football so it took me some time to get back to drop Fisher off and get back to the school). 

 

I got to Hunter's class and when I realized he had been asleep for about 45 minutes I decided to just wait and see what he did.  After about 6-7 minutes he started to stir so I knew he would be waking up.  I just stood back in the corner to see how he handled it.  He woke up happy and played and it didn't really even faze him.  Hooray!  That is just what I needed.   It was good for me to be able to see the classroom and the other kids playing and doing their thing.  It gave me peace of mind to see how things worked in his class even if it was only for a few minutes.  His nap was a blessing in disguise for me because it got me in his classroom so I could observe. 

 

Day one was a success for Hunter and for Mom.  I survived and so did Hunter.