School shopping?

So, Caleigh will start preschool for the first time next month. This shall be interesting. Her only experience in a classroom type setting has been on Sunday mornings for an hour each week. She really enjoys the time she has in there...the battle is getting her IN there. We only do this once a week and it is still a "hit or miss" ordeal. Dad drop her off....Mom drop her off....Dad stay with her for a few minutes while mom disappears.....Vice versa......Tears......No Tears......you get the idea. And this happens once a week. Preschool is five days a week! She seems pretty excited and I am excited for her, but I am also nervous. Her tantrums here lately can be quite terrifying, to put it mildly. LOL! But that nervousness aside, she is ready to go school shopping. Mainly for her "own scissors". As stated earlier, this makes me nervous as well!

I do have to admit though, I have enjoyed looking for her first book bag. She is so little and some of those book bags are so huge. She gave the workers and customers at our local Academy Sports a real good laugh when she tried on a back pack that extended from her neck to her ankles and tried to walk in it. It was quite comical. I should have taken a pic to share. We did look at and try on some of the smaller ones, but per her instructions from the school, she needs a full size book bag to accommodate a full size folder to be sent back and forth with her each day. So, the search is on to find a full size book bag that doesn't swallow her whole. I think I may have found one at a local boutique but their order hasn't come in this week so we haven't been able to try one on yet.

In addition to the all important book bag and her "own scissors" we will be venturing out to get the rest of the list of needed supplies. I guess I should be happy that she isn't super excited about the glue!

(On a side note, we had Caleigh's post-op visit today. She's healing nicely with just a few scabs left to fall off. She has been such a trooper! I hope I never have to put her through anything like this again!)