The First Week of Pre-School.../保育園１週間目...

So summer came and went and I have gone back to work and Madison has finished a week of full-time Pre-School. She seems to be settling into her new routine nicely enjoying her cereal(She has a container of her favorite cereal at school and they provide milk, bowl and spoon:-) at school to start the day. Her school is called The Belmont Shore Children's Center and she gets her little cubby to keep her stuff in so technically we don't bring anything with her every moning... Right now only 8 kids are in a class room which is a really nice number and Madison really likes her teacher Ms. Jordan and she calls her Sensei(teacher in Japanese)...:-)
あっという間に夏休みが終わり僕は仕事に戻りマディソンも一週間目の保育園を無事終了する事が出来ました。毎朝学校に到着した後マディソン用に置いてあるコーンフレークを他の朝ご飯を食べているお友達と一緒に食べて学校開始...マディソンの教室にはちゃんと決まったロッカーがあるから毎朝いろいろ持って来る必要も無く、子供は現在８人居るのかな、そして先生って日本語で読んでいるらしい...：）

So I(Anna) was able to go pick her up on her first day of school... and that meant she was there until close to 6, sad I know and she technically was the last one to be picked up(there are two other kids besides M but they belong to Ms. Jordan...) but she was so excited to see me and said Hi Mommy!! and seemed to have had lots of fun...:-)
マディソンの最初の日は火曜日だったのでアンナがマディソンを迎えに行ったんだけど、と言う事は６時近くまで学校に居る結果先生の２人の子供を抜くとマディソンが最後の子に：(でも私を見るなりハイマミー！って走って来て楽しんだみたい...：）でも最後に迎えが来る子って何か可哀想だよね。

保育園３日目、やっぱり私の車から出たがらずノー先生って泣いたんだけど、学校の中に入って他の子達を見てコーンフレークが登場すると嬉しそうに私にハグとキス...：）
On her third day of pre-school, she definitely wasn't too excited to get out of Mommy's red car when we pulled up, but once we walk in and when she sees other kids and her bowl of cereal arrive she is usually okay and gives me a cute kiss and a hug...:-)

I took a picture of her class schedule so we know what she may be doing through out the day...
今日、教室にあった一日の予定表の写真を撮りました...

Madison being so brave has helped in Dave and my transition to full-time work ourselves. It hasn't been easy, and it has only been a week, but we feel blessed to have found a daycare we are happy with only a mile from our place as while we would have enjoyed her getting the language benefits we can't fathom making that long drive on the 405 after work if Madison was at daycare in Torrance.
マディソンが思った以上に保育園を楽しんでくれているので家の近くに良い保育園を見つける事が出来て本当にありがたく思っています。

Oh and the BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT of this first week would have to be that Madison quit her paci absolutely-totally cold turkey!! Because the school won't allow paci we tried during the summer to phase it out and we almost got the usage down to her nap time and bed time but the first day of school comes and she goes totally paci-less.... Even at home for bed time(Dave almost gave in once, but we toughed it out!) Who would have thought!
今週の大革命と言えば保育園が始まって以来パシを止めた事です!!保育園ではパシを使えないってことを知っていたから夏休み中何とか止めさせようとしたんだけど保育園が始まる前日までお昼寝の時と夜寝る時は必需品だったんだけど...本当に信じられない！

So of course our first weekend we had to go to Disneyland. It was actually raining a bit, but we managed to get on the Nemo Submarine ride which we hadn't been on since we first went last Halloween because the line is so long and Madison hated the dark. Of course this time she had just finished watching Nemo and she loved the ride.
そして、保育園１週目をお祝いしに土曜日はディズニーランドへ。少し小雨の中ニモの潜水艦に久しぶりに乗る事にしました。ニモの映画好きなお陰で最初に乗った時より断然楽しめたみたい。

We also went on one of her other favorites...Autopia. Anna sat this one out to go grab her overdue cup of coffee and was able to video a bit of us arriving back at the garage...
直ぐ横にあるオートピアには僕とマディソンで...コーヒーを買って来て見ていたアンナが無事に帰って来た僕とマディソンの運転の様子をビデオに撮る事が出来ました...

When we got home around lunchtime, Madison decided to forego her nap and instead help with the shucking of corn. We let a lot of the summer slip by without corn because Anna was waiting for the bi-colored kind we enjoyed back East...once we discovered that wasn't out here, we tried what they did have and it was yummy.
お昼頃に家に着いた後お昼寝をしなかったマディソンはママがトウモロコシの皮を剥くお手伝い。ニューヨークで食べ成れていた２色のトウモロコシがこっちに無い事に気づくのが遅すぎてお店に来るのを待っていたのでこの夏はトウモロコシをあんまり食べる事が出来ませんでした。でもこっちの黄色のトウモロコシもなかなかおいしいくて良かった。