First day of school! (Friday,1st June, 2012, 9:30-10:15am)

So, I'm back at work after going through 45 minutes of my baby's (no longer a baby!) first day of nursery! It wasn't too bad, come to think of it.

So, I've been prepping him all week, saying today is Thursday, tomorrow is Friday, your first day of school...etc etc and then yesterday night, put him to sleep with the promise that tomorrow morning, we'd all go to his school...Canterberry school...together! Appacha..ammachi, dadda and mumma! He was all excited, and kept remembering the last time he went there, and how a mausi there gave him a telephone car to play with. Resigning to the fact that that's what he thinks school is all about, we said our prayers and slept.

Morning....was all about, hurry hurry, we need to go to school! Do potty, brush your teeth, drink your milk (still soooo hard, its Donald Duck and his aeroplane that gets him to drink his milk now, sigh!), eat your dosa..(mumma, I want Chutttt...ney...!) run run...all a blur now! Josh was all excited, jumping all over the bed, not putting his clothes, till I threatened that we would not go to canterberry school if Josh doesn't put on his clothes.

A brief camera session with the paternal grandparents, blessings over the phone from Kerala grandparents, and then ammachi saying a short prayer for their 3rd grandchild who's all set for his education!

Appacha kept saying, you both (meaning, dadda and mumma) go to office, we'll take care of him, afterall, this isn't our first time, while I kept saying, he's not going to leave school after seeing the toys. But, there's always.....Gems!! His new fascination...for the coloured chocolate drops, he'd stop crying, and do anything for Gems! So, very confident with a Gems box in the bag, appacha and ammachi took Josh to school, with his dadda-mumma (us) behind.

School was a noisy playground! Teachers in their green kurtas, ayahs in their red sarees and the enthusiastic principal Susan all saying Good morning, while Josh was in a daze! He made a beeline to a table covered with.......you guessed right, buses, bikes and cars! And...just sat there playing...in all that noise, unaffected. Kids all around were jumping, playing with blocks, going down the slides, swings, but our little master was busy playing with his bus.

I'd got the camera and videocam along, with two motives in mind. One, to take pics of Josh (of course) and second, for an assignment for all moms that we paste pics of our little one and submit a colourful book with his experiences at our first PTA meeting!! Aaaargggghhh....and so it begins. :)

Susan then announces a musical chair program and all mothers had to run around chairs holding their kids to some music. Josh did not want to run and just wanted to get back to his car/bus/bike.Sigh...:) And so I get him one of the buses, and clutching that, he runs with me! :) We lost, of course...and had to announce/introduce ourselves as punishment.

When time was up, and the next batch of kids had to come in, the school bell was rung. But, of course, our lil' Josh didn't want to go home. No sireeee, he wanted to play with his bus. Out comes the magic Gems, and wooop, down goes the bus. Yippeee...all of us trudge out, saying thank you, teacher...we'll come back on Monday! Thus ended Josh's first day at school! Not bad, don't you think? Atleast he didn't cry...but wait, we still have more days of this, hope he adjusts well and learns to enjoy himself out there. More updates sooon! :)