Caleb's 1st Day of School

Doesn't he look like the happiest kid ever. He was so excited for class. This is how he looked all morning. He was even ready to go to his room right after we dropped Chloe at her class. His class is 30min after Chloe's starts, so we headed to the library to pick up a Land Before Time movie that we had reserved. We walked around outside for a little while, then headed back in. While walking into the building we ran into Ben & Gavin Secrest, some friends of Caleb's (Kim & Brian are our friends from college). So Caleb was really excited to see some boys he knew. They all played outside the classroom and Caleb kept trying to open the door.

The teachers opened the door and Caleb pushed through everyone to be the first one in. He made a bee-line for the trains and cars and trucks on the floor. Actually all of the boys did. There are like 8-10 boys in this all 2year old class and only 2 girls. Anyway, Caleb barely cared when I said goodbye. He was happily playing. So I went to Starbucks with Kim. It was nice to get out and have some adult conversation and quiet time. But oh I felt bad when we got back. So the class is 1 1/2 hours long. The teachers are Chloe's old teachers so they know how badly Caleb has wanted to be in their class and play. They said he started crying and calling for mama about 5 min. after I left. They didn't call me because they would distract him and get him to play for a couple of minutes and then he would start up again. We got back with about 20 min left in class and from outside in the hallway all I heard was mama, mama. I peeked in the window and there was Caleb crying and looking up at teacher Gail like where did my mama go? He saw me so I went in for a few minutes and played with him. Then it was snack time so I told Caleb I would go wait in the hall while he had crackers. He looked sad, but I think he was hungry. He sat and stuffed almost all of the ritz crackers into his mouth then headed back to the door for me.

When Chris asked Caleb how his first day of school was he said good. So we will see how next week goes. Hopefully better.