Aspen's 1st day of Preschool

Aspen had her first day of Preschool on Thursday (9-10-09). She looked so adorable! I couldn't believe that I was actually getting her ready for her first day of preschool, how did my baby grow up so fast????? She was so excited to go, she kept saying, "I wanna go to school RIGHT NOW!" I had a pit in my stomach. We got to her preschool and she ran straight to the sandbox and started playing. I kept saying, "Aspen, mommy and daddy are leaving, we will pick you up in a couple of hours!" She ignored me the first couple of times and then finally glanced up and said, "Bye Mom, I'll miss you!" Thats it? No hugging the legs crying fit, begging me not go??? I was really relieved that she was okay with me leaving, becuase I would have broke down if she would've cried. I had to go to school directly after dropping her off, so Justin picked her up. He said she was really excited to see him and ran right up to him. He walked down to get her with Porter. When he put Aspen in the stroller, she looked up at him and said, "Dad, I'm all worned out!" So cute. Over the course of the next couple of days she kept saying little things about preschool. She has told us that her teacher says that you can't say, "Damn dog!" Justin and I looked at each other in absolute horror when she told us that one, LOL! When Justin picked her up the teacher told him that Aspen spent most of the 1st day learning how to listen and sit in her chair when she was supposed to. When we asked Aspen about sitting in her chair, she started to twirl her hair and looked confused and said, "For some reason they wanted me to sit in my chair, but I wanted to play with the toys instead!" HAH! Its like she couldn't even possibly imagine the logic behind having to sit in a chair with all those toys around to play with!! :0) Unfortunatly the very next day after school she started to run a high fever and got really sick. She has had a full on viral outbreak and is miserable. She has to miss this whole week of school and had to miss her very first dance class. She was so bummed. I was so devastated that she got so sick that I instantly went into defense mode and wanted to take her out of school and keep her home in her safe little bubble forever, but I know I can't do that. So we are riding this one out and hoping that by next week she is back to herself!