He's now a pre-schooler

In a blink of an eye, K-boy is already 30 months old. We've been trying to get him a spot in a playschool near my work place since early this year but we had to be in the waiting list. It's not that the school is that famous till it has a long waiting list, but it's because we weren't sure if we wanted to send him to one at all when the schools were busy with their registration of new student intake.

Early this month we received a call saying that there's an empty spot, and that we could bring K-boy for a 2-day trial run, If everything goes well, he could just continue on with the program instead of waiting for the next month.

We started prepping him for playschool - telling him the activities he would be doing there and all, but being a first timer, what does he know about going to school? All he could give in response was just to nod his head whenever we asked him if he would like to go to school... I guess he must be thinking that going to school is like what he had seen in Barney.

All ready and set for school

On the first day of trial, he did get some 'culture shock' with so many kids, teachers and rules to follow. He was clinging to me most of the time, until it was time to play with the slides and all. He didn't even bother to look for me, and was enjoying himself and started mingling with other kids. Then the teacher suggested that I sneak away, which I did and ended up feeling awfully terrible for doing so. As I was driving away, I could imagine how he must have felt being abandoned by me. True enough, when I returned to pick him up, he cried like the floodgate went burst! Even more guilty! So, note to self and hubby, never ever do that again although he's going to cry when we leave.

2nd day was almost similar, but slightly better. And by the third day, he started to have adjusted himself more at the playschool. So we decided to go ahead and enroll him into the school. And by the end of the week, he only gave a fake-cry when we picked him up from school.

And now, after 3 weeks down the road, he's enjoying himself at school and becoming more independent and learning a lot of new vocabs too! Seeing him getting to learn something while having fun made me feel I've done the right decision in sending him to a playschool  even before the age of 3. :)