Rachel Goes to Learning School

For most of her life, Rachel has gone to in-home daycare. For the first year she went to Sarah's house, and then up until the time Bree went on maternity leave with Clay, she went to Shea's house. Rachel knew that she wanted to expand her horizons. It was important to her that she start going to pre-school, which for the longest time she has decided to call "Learning School". We decided that she must have a little hillbilly in her.

On August 28th Rachel started attending learning school at Our Lady of Fatima on 20th street in Lakewood. On balance we believe that the experience is going well for her. She has apparently made some friends, although we can never tell if the names she is giving us actually go to real people. There is the elusive Brian, who is often mentioned in conversation, but is also apparently never actually in attendance. Brian* may or may not be a little older (like 4) and typically has appointments scheduled or has contracted some sort of malady that precludes him from attending learning school. Other names she mentions are clearly fabrications and outright gibberish that might, on some level, be associated with actual children.

Bree found her eating Fruit Loops as an afternoon snack when she went to pick her up one day. Rachel suggested that we should get Fruit Loops for at home. This didn't sit well with my wife. They actually sound pretty good to me. Its been years since I've had Fruit Loops. I'll bet they would be good with some Skittles from Rachel's Halloween basket. But I wouldn't necessarily want Rachel to partake.

Here is a photo of Rachel on her first day.

*subsequent investigations have revealed that there is nobody named Brian enrolled in preschool at Our Lady of Fatima this semester. This would account for why he is never there.