Kirik Goes to Pre-School

Kirik started preschool last week. So now we have three days a week where we have no kids at home for two and a half hours. Can you believe it??? I thought the day would never come. We had decided to hold Kirik back from preschool this year and put him in next year but the preschool called and they had an extra space which is unheard of. We talked about it and we decided to have him do the 4's class this year and repeat it again the next year.

He is still pretty small compared to the others and not sure how he is going to do socially. Although there area usually as many kids at the house as there are at the preschool at any given time, but it's a litte different without mom and dad around. His first day was last Wednesday and it seemed to go really well. When we told Kirik he was going to go to preschool this year he immediately wanted to call Miss Diana his teacher to tell her he is a big boy now.

All of the kids have gone to the Monmouth Independence Cooperative Preschool (MICP) so it is kind of a tradition. Miss Diana has taught all of the kids and all of her kids go on to do really well so it is a great start for them. Kody's best friends are still the kids he went to preschool with as they form a pretty tight bond and probably will be life long friends.

Today I picked Kirik up and Miss Diana said Kirik had punched a boy in the eye for not looking at him. Which seemed like as good a reason as any to punch someone in the eye. Sounds like something all of the rest of the kids did at one time or another. So we'll see how he does. He is pretty smart so I don't worry about that part but it is just being so much smaller and behind due to the orphanage.

Check out his pics from his first day as a bona fide big boy.