I will post Halloween, I promise, but this just happened this morning and we wanted to blog it while the memories were fresh.
While trying to potty train Michael these past few months, we established an order of rewards he got for every time he goes poop in the potty. It went carrier truck, transit bus, blue truck, and school. If he went in his diaper rather than the potty, we would remove the most recent reward and he'd have to earn it back.
He was stuck on the carrier truck for a long time, getting it one day and losing it the very next day, until this week, when he went poop in the potty 4 days in a row! (Guess who had to deliver on rewards they hadn't prepared for yet?)
So, yesterday afternoon, I called a well loved, local preschool that thankfully had openings, and set up a tour for this morning. I didn't tell Michael until this morning that he'd get to go today, because he's not the most patient child, and it was a good thing because the hour that we had to wait between him finding out about school and actually going were positively painful.
"Can we go to my school yet?" "Can you take me to the bus stop?" "I'm going to go to school and you're going to stay here, right?" "Can we go to school now?" Non stop.
Then, once we left, I forgot to double check the address and got lost. Michael almost had a breakdown in the backseat. "Is that my school?" "Can we go to my school now?" "When are we going to my school?"
We finally made it there for the tour and Michael fell in love. "Is this my school?!" I filled out the paperwork while he played with toys in the front office. Then they asked me when we wanted him to start, saying we could start as early as tod- I stopped her right there and said, "Really, today? Let's do it."
We paid the fee, went home for lunch, and brought Michael back for his first class. He had a hard time holding still for a picture, but here is Michael's first day of school:
Here are Michael's other rewards. Carrier truck (it took a while to grab that bad photo of him holding it up because he was so very intent on playing with it)- it's a Melissa and Doug wood toy:
And then I just snagged a pic of these two, transit bus (a hotwheels) and blue truck (a semi he saw at Kmart and fixated on):
Now I have to figure out what I'm going to do every Tues/Thurs for 2 and a half hours while Michael's away. Oh no! :)
