Preschool Here I Come!!

Esther Marie is ready to go..go..go! She loves going places and loves flowers. Today, she was headed to a meeting with mommy and daddy.

Emmie meets her new teacher.

School is a fun place with lots of toys!

Daddy shows me the "preschoolers only" playground.

Today, we received wonderful news and an answer to prayer....Esther Marie was accepted into the preschool program at one of the public schools in our county!! In fact, it is the ONLY preschool program in the county and is highly recommended.

Esther Marie will be turning three soon, so about a month ago she had some testing done to see what areas she needed help in. This afternoon, we went to the IEP meeting where we found out the results of the tests and which services she qualified for. We had hoped she would qualify for the preschool program but thought more realistically that she would just qualify for speech therapy. I tried not to get my hopes up and prayed for God to put Esther Marie where he wants her to be. Now she will be attending this program 4 days/week for three hours each day. Another answer to prayer was that she can start on her birthday if she wants to...instead of having to wait until school starts again at the end of summer. Well, her birthday is next week...Tuesday, April 7th. She will start soon after that date. She seems very excited about it, although we will have to wait to see how it goes. Today, we met her teacher, her speech therapist and got to see her classroom and the playground. They even have a carpool line for the preschoolers, but I am definitely walking her in the first week!

Stayed tuned and I'll let you know how her first day of school goes (and how mommy reacts to her baby girl starting school). In the meantime, we have some shopping to do....school supplies and a backpack!!