P-P-Preschool!

Well, it's official. Evan will be entering Preschool on September 4th. My little boy is going to school.

After grilling neighbors for the best preschools in the area, it always came back to our park district being the best for 3 year olds. We could enroll him in a very expensive program a couple miles away where it's an accelerated program, but the kicker is- he already knows everything on the 3 year old curriculum. Since this is more a test of how he does with his peers, we're going for the fun park district program instead of bumping him up to the 4 year old program. If he's bored out of his gourd, we can change in 7 weeks. But he knows half the stuff on the 4 year old curriculum as well.

We celebrated by going to Kohl's and picking out his very own backpack, where he eagerly snatched up a cool Diego backpack, complete with wheels. After all, what is a backpack if it doesn't have wheels? Then we picked out new shoes, which I told him he needed for school, but really, that was only because his shoes are so tight, he trips every 5th step. Giving up the old shoes is always traumatic.

He happily put his new backpack and shoes up on the counter, and the girl asked him if this was for school. He thought for a second, smiled knowingly, and said condescendingly, "No! PWEE-school!" Duh. As if! Ah, my little smart-ass is growing up so fast!