He likes school!

Grant had a rough beginning to the school year. For the first few weeks, he cried a lot (so surprising, because he did great last year). I think it had a lot to do with his pacifier.....they're more strict this year (now that he's officially in "preschool" instead of Mother's Day Out), and his pacifier needs to stay in his bag during the day.

So on Tuesday, he was telling me he didn't want to go to school as we drove into the parking lot. He cried when we got to his room, and I was expecting it to be another bad day. But when I picked him up, his teacher Ms. Dianne said that they made a deal with him. He could keep his pacifier as long as it stayed in his pocket. And they said throughout the morning, he'd stick his hand in his pocket, just to touch it and make sure it was still there! Ms. Machelle caught him at one point pulling it out of his pocket, and he quickly put it back in! But he had a much better day and only cried for a few minutes at one point.

So on Wednesday, we saw Ms. Machelle (yes, that's how she spells her name) at Kroger. Grant had his pacifier (he usually doesn't get it in the grocery store, but it had been a bad day) and was sitting in the shopping cart. The second he saw her, he instinctively grabbed his paci out of his mouth and started putting it into his pocket, as if he was getting in trouble!

Thursday he was more excited about going to school. And no tears all day! He's been saying this weekend that he had fun at school and he wants to go back, and today he was singing a song about the days of the week (which he obviously learned there). He was SO proud of himself!