First Day of School!

Yep, can you believe it? Ollie's going to preschool! We're doing it Brooklyn style. Six families have formed a coop, named it Tiny Human Academy, hired an amazing teacher, and will take turns hosting the new classmates at each home every six weeks for three mornings. Ollie was REALLY excited to go. He's been telling everyone, including the guy who runs the parking lot down the street, that he's going to preschool. We've been talking about it for a while, got a special new backpack, and he knows a few of the kids in his class quite well (the first week is at Zadia's house, so he's really familiar with his "classroom" this week). All of that made the first day a lot of fun—he didn't mind at all when Mama waved goodbye... it was just Mama who got a little teary.

First though, Ollie practiced being a teenager and tried to sleep in on his first day.

But soon enough he was up, filled with breakfast, dressed, and ready to go with his new monster backpack. 

High-fives for Papa on his way out.

And poses with Mama.

Zadia's house was all ready for the first week... complete with special cubbies for each kid!

On the first day of school when Papa was little, Poppy used to tell him, "the party's over!" since summer was ending. But we think for Ollie, the party's just starting!