Accidental First Day Of Preschool

Owen had an accidental first day of preschool today.  I was told that today was orientation and that "you will accompany your child to meet new friends and have some fun."  So I told Owen that today we were going to his new school and that I would stay with him but next week, he would go by himself (just like Caillou!) 

So we arrived and after about 2 minutes of playing with some fun new toys, the teacher came over and said "so when you think your child is ready, go ahead and follow me to the parent room where we will go over the information for the year."  Uh...ok?  So I told Owen I was going away for a second and he acted like he could care less.

TWO HOURS LATER we returned to our children.  There were no tears, but a little bit of whining and mouthiness...probably because he was mad at me for leaving him for so long!  The teacher said he did great.  Owen told me, "I pretended to cry but the lady told me 'Your Mommy is in her classroom and she'll be back soon!'"  But then proceeded to tell me how he didn't want to come back to school.  Hopefully he'll change his mind next week for the official first day of school.

Here are the unofficial first art projects of preschool.  A ladybug and two bees.  But one of the bees has a smiley face on it.  He's been practicing these a lot and he's getting pretty darn good (I think!)