I'm a Big Girl Now!

We discovered on Thursday that Katelyn's daycare is moving to Johnson. This is very inconvenient for us and would end up costing us much more in gas each week. We made the decision that we would try to find a better preschool that was more convenient. I was lucky to find a preschool on my way to work that is even cheaper due to parent involvement. It appears to be a great school and has been in business since 1975. They are much smaller with only 28 students and I hope that Katelyn will learn more and will get more personal attention than her current situation provides. However, this new school does not accept children that are not potty trained. Diapers and Pull-ups are not allowed. I went straight from my visit to the new school to take Katelyn shopping for big girl underwear. I let her pick them off the rack, put them on the check out counter, and discuss her situation with the store clerk. The clerk was very understanding. She even gave Katelyn her own shopping bag for her new big girl underwears and gave her the receipt as if she had purchased them herself. It was a big day for her. We decided that night that there would be no more pull-ups except at night because she has still had a few nights with very wet pull-ups in the recent past. However, she made it all day yesterday at school without any accidents! We were so excited and she knows no that she's a big girl. She went and spent the night with Mimi and Poppi last night and didn't even want to take her big girl underwears off to go to bed. They had to put the pull-up on over her big girl underwears after she went to sleep. It was a big day/night for us with two big milestones at one time. This was the first full night she had spent away from both of us. It was kind of nice but definitely weird to not have a toddler in tow. We ended up spending most of the night shopping for father's day gifts and toys for her. She is in a very big learning stage right now and really wants to play with flashcards, read books, and do art projects. We hope the new preschool will help her get a head start before school.