First Day Of School

Today was the first day of school in Menomonee Falls. As is tradition I took the girls' picture:


We drove Alison to school this morning afterward. Luckily for us (or not) it was raining this morning, so we got to go right into school and drop Ali off at her classroom. She was a little nervous going in but luckily there was another Riverside girl who had got there the same time.

I got to meet Ali's teacher, and she seemed very nice. She did a lot to help Ali feel comfortable. there was another girl there who was putting her things into her desk so Mrs. Woolard (Ali's teacher) asked if Ali would help her since Ali was there the day before and "did such a good job setting up her desk". I thought it was a nice ice breaker for Ali.

We found out where we needed to go to pick Alison up at the end of the day. I will say that things are much different than we were used to at Riverside. We told Ali where to meet us and then we left. Kris did a very good job. She wa worried she would be crying but did alright with everything.

At the end of the day we drove up and parked across the street waiting for Alison. Unfortunately she never came out. The neighbor who we were also driving home was there, but no Alison. So Kris and I had to go inside to find her. Her classroom was empty and the chairs were all up on the desks, so we walked down to the office. As we got there we saw a mom who used to live about a block and a half away from us that we knew from Riverside. She said hi to me and then said Alison was in front. I walked around and there she was waiting with her teacher.

I got her attention and she came running, nearly in tears. She obviously had misunderstood our directions and ended up going to the front of the school and thought that we had forgotten her. After some soothing words and some hugs, she was all better for the most part. We cleared everything up for Thursday and headed home.

We found out there were a few mistakes made during the day such sitting in the wrong place during lunch, and going the wrong way on the monkey bars. Things will get better though, we just have to be patient.