School

The girls have been in school for a few weeks now. Both are very happy and love going to school. Ali had been going half days so that I could get her home to have a nap. Half way through last week as I was dragging Ali back and forth from school it occurred to me that I was making her travel for an hour and a half just so she could get an hour nap. It just didn't seem worth it and was really hard on her. I spoke with Ali's teacher to find out more about the rest period. (I never bothered to ask last year since Sofia hadn't napped since she was about 20 months old.) The kids get a 35 minute rest period where they have to lay down on their blanket the entire time and if they fall asleep during that time they will let them sleep for an hour. This sounded much better to me than dragging Ali 1.3miles to get almost the same amount of sleep. I signed her up for full days and she started today. Ali was very excited to stay the entire day. I think the thing she was most excited about though was having soup for lunch. I wasn't sure if she would like soup since she has never had any but I signed her up for the soup lunch. I'm glad I did because she apparently LOVED her soup. All in all everything went great for her. She had her soup and took a nap and didn't have to walk over a mile to do it. She was tired at the end of the day but was still very happy.