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First Day at Creche!

So, here's a pic of Bryn on his first day ever at creche! Ok, so the pic was taken after we got home again, LOL, but that's only because I only got about 4 hours broken sleep last night and so it was a bit of a mad rush out the door this morning... There is evidence of the tomato sauce from his Evil Kingdom cheeseburger and the accompanying toy (aka prized possesion of the moment), so sue me for wanting to celebrate this momentus day in the boy's life, hehehe!

He had a marvellous time, apparently. The bus ride back to the shopping centre was full of stories of building REALLY big sandcastles, hand painting, making play doh with Sienna (the star attraction of creche, don't you know), eating his snack and drinking his drink, and reading stories.

He had been wanting to go to creche since going to the creche at yoga (for one hour) with Jenny's Hugo in the first term of this year, so I had an inkling that he'd enjoy himself. And then there was the added bonus of having Jayne working there, and it being at the Neighbourhood House where we'd previously attended playgroup for over a year, and OF COURSE who could forget the opportunity to spend three whole hour with Sienna, only his most favourite person in the world, LOL!


Mr Tiny and I spent the three hours at the local shopping centre where I walked and walked with Tiny in the stretchy sling I swapped with Leah, for the tube sling I bought that didn't fit... Now, I would have said I probably got in a good amount of exercise towards my weight loss efforts... That is, if I hadn't had a coffee with two donuts, an iced chocolate and then a large cheeseburger meal for lunch - oh dear, LOL... Better eat something a bit more nutritionally sound for dinner!

Took these pics of Ari last night...

Before...


And blissfully, after...

Comments

Pagan Rach said…
Gorgeous gorgeous (both of them). Love that last pic.
Glad Bryn had a good day... Malachi's looking forward to preschool next year, we went for a visit there today :)
10:37 pm
Nic said…
Glad Bryn had a good day at preschool, having someone he knows there must be lovely for him :-)
8:19 am
Spiralmumma said…
Oh so glad he enjoyed himself! I could tell he did of course, but good to have it confirmed! Sienna was very excited to have him there, and kept doing 'motherly' stuff like showing him all the toys and getting his lunchbox and drink out for him, and reserving a place next to her at the snack table :D
8:28 pm
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