Preschool!

I can't believe I haven't written a post about Allie's first day of preschool yet. Busyness has seemed to completely take over the past few weeks. But since this is my pseudo-baby book, I definitely have to document the event. :)
Allie was soooooo excited to start preschool and soooooo ready. We let her pick out a backpack, and then of course I had to get her the matching lunch bag, water bottle, bento box, fork and spoon and ice packs. Yes, I am that mom. We talked about school and the kinds of things she would be doing. She asked every single day in the weeks leading up to the first day when she would get to go to 'school' :)
About a week before the first day, they had a meet the teacher/classroom day. Allie got to go into her actual classroom, check things out, play a little and meet some other kids and the teachers. She has two amazing teachers and Allie loved them from the start.
On the first day (after I took a gagillion pictures of course), Matt and I brought her to school. We had to wait outside the classroom until the teachers open the doors and let the students in. Allie's door opened, she looked at us, we told her she could go in and then she literally pushed her way through a crowd of parents and kids to get into her classroom. No hugs, no goodbyes, no looks back :( It broke my heart but I certainly think it's better than the opposite.
So now we start our 'new normal'. A normal of first days and last days, Christmas breaks and spring breaks, open houses, picture days and field trips. And I could not be happier and more proud of my big girl :)