Preschool Update

The girls have been going to preschool for just over a month now, so I thought I should post a long overdue update. A summary, for those of you not interested in details, is that they are doing great and they seem to love going. Here are things about preschool that I think that I want to remember:

• Their teachers are Mrs. Hogan and Mrs. Barnard...though the girls call her Mrs. Nard which D and I have a hard time listening to without giggling. They like to play school and usually one of them is the mommy dropping off the baby, one is Mrs. Nard, and I am Mrs. Hogan.
• We had to put down a goal for the year, and I put that I wanted the girls to learn to play with other kids. I have been getting reports back that they are indeed playing apart...some of the time. Brooke is the more social one and seems to interact more with other kids (as least from listening to her talk about who she played with...though sometimes I think that she is just listing all the kids that she can remember.)
• Both teachers have independently commented to us how polite the girls are. HOORAY!! The first outside validation of all the times that we have told them to say please, thank you, excuse me, etc. They have also told us that they are very well behaved. Another big HOORAY!!
• In a shocking turn, both their regular teacher and their creative movements teacher (Mrs. Wilcox) have told us that the girls have excellent rhythm and are very good dancers/movers.
• Audrey got pushed off the monkey bars one day by a girl in her class. She was not hurt but she did cry. The unfortunate part is that now EVERY day Brooke immediately reports as she leaves the room (in front of all the parents waiting to pick up kids) that "Charlotte did not push Audrey today." Awesome. Fortunately we are usually after Charlotte's mom so this has not unfolded in front of her.
• We had open house last week and this was the first time that D had been up to the preschool. He has been somewhat disappointed with the lack of academics in the classroom....as every day he asks what they learn and every day they look at him blankly and talk about eating snack, going outside, and Charlotte not pushing. After the open house, he has determined that he is not going to think of it as any type of school, but more as a replacement of all of the art and music classes that I used to take them to. Apparently the academics are going to have to come from him at home!
• They seem to really enjoy taking things for their show and tell days (which is every other Tuesday - fortunately they are on the same days!) Audrey took her Nemo fish this past time and Brooke took her squishy ladybug toy (which she was very excited to tell me that she passed it around so that everyone could squeeze it and see the little balls inside of it.)
  
• I am sure there are more things but I can't seem to remember them at all.

Unrelated to the post, but I though it was funny to see them with all of their babies in their diapers. And as we put a new diaper on each one, they would put down the old diaper and say "don't step in the poop."