To Change or Not to Change

That has been the question. For a few months now we have been unhappy with some of the changes at Noah's preschool. Not we need to pull him out to immediately unhappy, but more that it just wasn't the right fit for our family anymore. However, I was still hesitant to move him because of so much uncertainty in the coming months. My job isn't exactly stable at the moment and we are hoping to receive a referral sooner rather than later which means two trips to Ethiopia. On top of that was not wanting to have to deal with weeks of dropping him off crying as he adjusted to the change. Finally, we decided to go ahead and move him. We don't know what the future holds so we have to go off of the information we have today. Well, I'm happy to report that we made the right decision! We went for a short visit before his first day and he hasn't cried once at drop off. In fact he's run in each day with a smile on his face. His new preschool just recently opened so he's one of the first students in the program. On his first day they did a planting project that related to a story they had read. The second day he came home with this freezer strawberry jam he had made. Most important is that he is happy and we feel so much better about where he is spending his time away from us.


We are also thankful that Nick loves his Extended Day Program that he attends in the afternoons after kindergarten. Below is a picture he painted there. He said they had a video with someone demonstrating how to paint this picture and the teacher would play a little and then pause while the kids did each section. Do they have that for adults because I want to try!?