Noah was a little less excited to go to school once we actually got there.  All morning he stood at the ready just waiting for me to make my move to pick up my keys.  We had a bit of a meltdown over a cereal bar that broke…Oh the tragedy.

We park and get out and he’s just fine.  Walking up the full flight of stairs he tells me “I’m going to need a nap after climbing the stairs.”  Then we get to his room and he freezes.  The room itself isn’t quite the hub of excitement it was yesterday on day 1.  Part of that is that over half of the kids in his class only come on T/W/Th.  The school has 3 preschool options–3–1/2 days, 3-full days or 5-full days.  Noah and 5 other kids do the 5 full days everyone else is a 3 time a week.  So the room was a little “bigger” today as there were far less people.  Noah really loves an audience.  He was a little clingy and bit crabby (with mommy).  But he eventually settled down at a table and started working on a puzzle.

I know that this is a big adjustment for him–more so than for anyone else.  He misses his sister a lot.  Yesterday was the first full day that he has been apart from her.  When he went to mom’s day out-that was only for 4 hours two times a week.  This is for 6 hours 5 days a week.  He’ll get comfortable with it eventually.  I know it is harder on me and he barely looked up at me when I left–either out of disdain (I can’t believe you’re going to leave me here) or concentration (can’t you see me working on this puzzle here mom!).

But, I managed to leave him there and will spend the rest of my day thinking about him and hoping that he makes it through the day without incident.