Skipping School!

Today I had the day off.  After taking D to school every day for three years, and spending the first four months of little L's life with her in my office, I was missing my girls.  Daddy gets to take them to school everyday, since their school is about 2 miles from his.  Grand Prairie ISD has a staff only daycare.  The girls go to a dual language campus.  D comes home counting in Spanish!!  They are working on letter tracing, counting, fine motor skills, and a ton of other stuff.  D is loving school.  Little L is content pretty much all of the time.  She is so busy having fun at school, that she has been catching cat naps only. This means that she comes home and crashes for almost 5 hours.

Today, I decided that the girls were skipping school and spending the day with me.  No one told Little L that she could sleep in, so she was up at 6 (darn!).  After she ate and played for an hour, she was ready for a nap.  D woke up at 6:30 (she too didn't sleep in!).  She ate yogurt and watched a Scooby Doo, which is her new favorite thing.  After the show, she and I played Lego's, then Little People, then read with her Leap Frog Jr.  She read all five of her books while I jumped in the shower.

After I was ready to go, we got D dressed.  She wanted Little L to match (which is hard since we don't have a lot of matching clothes).  D wore a shirt with flowers and Little L wore a yellow jumper with flowers.  It was as close as I could get. I packed up the diaper bag, woke up Little L, and we were off.  We drove to the Grapevine Community Center where every Thursday morning they host a Preschool Playdate.  D, L, and I went there almost every Thursday during the summer.  D ran in with her dollar in hand.  Yes, the play date costs a dollar, but it runs from 9:30-noon and includes a ton of stuff.  D immediately went to the bounce house.  There is a full sized bounce house in the gym!! 

After the bounce house, she rode a bicycle.

Then, she reunited with a friend from this summer for some climbing.



There were balls, hula hoops, a parachute, a play kitchen, a play workshop, and rolling mats too.  D had a great time. 

Don't think that Little L was left out.  She met two new friends.  A set of twin girls who are a month younger than her.  She sat up on her mat for most of the time watching everyone and smiling.

After Preschool Playdate, we walked next door to the library.  D picked out new books and Mommy even got to get a new one.  Then, we went home for lunch and nap.  Little L fell asleep in the car on the way home from the library.  D ate lunch first.  They had a very exciting morning.  Boy did they CRASH afterwards!

 

It was a great day with my girls.