You’re not the boss of me

A couple weeks ago I told Caitlin to do something and she looks right at me and yells “YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME”.  I figure she picked this lovely phrase up from day care.  I let her know that I am the boss of her and put her in time out.  She’s said one or more two times, each time resulting in time-out.  I dread the fact that now that she’s in pre-school I’m going to be hearing more wonderful words and phrases coming from her little mouth.

First Day of School

Yesterday was Caitlin’s first day of school and Jaden’s first day of pre-school without Caitlin.  Caitlin was very excited to start.  Ever since we got her a back pack she has talked about going to school.  Tim took the day off so we drove the girls to Pam’s house and Jaden got out and Tim walked her up the stairs.  She turned around and said “bye mommy”, so I said “say bye to Caitlin too”, and she just looked at me like “what the heck are you talking about”, then she finally said “where’s Cailin going”?  I told her she was going to school and she looked so sad.  Tim took her hand and led her inside.  Then we headed of to pre-school, now I know both day care and pre-school are less than a minute walk for an adult, it takes 20 minutes to get to either place when you are walking with kids, and I have to be to work early now, so we drove.  We got to pre-school, me taking pictures the whole way!  Caitlin got to the classroom door and took her backpack off and said “here, take my backpack so I can go to school”.  She was still excited I think.  We were the first ones there so we walked her to her hook to hang up her bag.  At that point one of the teachers helpers came over to meet her and she grabbed on to Tim’s leg and didn’t really want to let go.  Finally we walked her to the play table that had dry pasta she could play with.  She played for a minute and then we said good bye.  I held up fine until we got outside her classroom.  Then I started crying.  I don’t even know why, I know it’s really just a glorified day care, but it was so sad to leave her at “school”.

She seemed to have a really good time though.  She knows a girl from her day care and the little boy from across the street.  I asked the teacher today how she did and she said she did great.  She was a little shy and quiet at first, but then just jumped right in and got along good with the other kids.  I’m really excited she gets to be with 23 other kids her age now.