tiger tots!

With Spring Break over, it's back to school for Kela and Anna.

Fortunately for us, it also marks the beginning of Tiger Tots preschool for Jolee and Kaden!!

*clap, clap, clap

 Here they are...waiting for the doors to open and let them in!

Ok, in case you're wondering what Tiger Tots is...it's a short, 7 week preschool program put on by McKinley High School for their early education senior class students.

It's super cheap ($25/child) and only lasts about 7 weeks at 2-3 times a week.

Each class is about 2 hours 45 minutes.

And since they take children from 18 months to 5 years, we got to drop off both Jolee AND Kaden this year!  Yippee!

 I'll admit...I was pretty nervous about Kaden.  Since Jolee went last year and loved it, I wasn't concerned about her...I knew she'd love it and have no problems.  But Kaden was a bit of a wild card-you never know what he's gonna do and how he's gonna react.

But as soon as we dropped him off, he barely gave me a second look, went straight for the toys and the student teachers and started to play.  

I sneaked in a couple of pictures before silently tip-toeing away for our very first child-free afternoon!

 After a fantastically carefree run around Ala Moana beach park, Mitch and I got to sit down and have a nice lunch together!  That was my huge salad and fried rice.  

Honestly, I can't recall the last time I got to sit down for a quiet lunch without a child I had to feed and/or keep from falling out of their seat and/or making a mess on the table and/or spilling their drink on the floor!

Needless to say, we loved it.  :)

And then all to soon, it was time to pick up the kids.  I was pretty nervous and not sure what we would find upon arriving back at the school...but wouldn't you know it, they were totally fine!

I saw Kaden peeking out the window as I walked up and I could tell he was having a blast and didn't miss me at all!  I was so proud of my boy when I saw how well he behaved and how little he fussed. 

 Although I'll admit to having a bit of dust in my eyes when I discovered that he didn't miss me at all?! Not one little iota?!    *sniff, sniff. 

Anyway...here's to 7 more weeks of stroller-less runs and carefree grocery shopping!

(Us mothers are SO easy to please, eh?)