Gal Smiley is off on her second day of preschool this morning, and she couldn’t get into the car fast enough. As we predicted, she had no trouble at drop-off on Monday, dashing into the school yard to play, leaving poor Sir Monkeypants to chase after her for a goodbye hug. She’s been dying to go to school since last March, when we dropped off her registration papers. There was an unfortunate misunderstanding, where she thought that she would be staying at school that day, and when she found out we were just leaving some paperwork, there was shall we say, an incident. So although we’re a little misty-eyed at seeing our little girl growing up, she was more than ready for this transition.

Captain Jelly Belly’s first day of Junior Kindergarten is tomorrow, and he’s a little more tentative when it comes to new situations. So yesterday and today, Sir Monkeypants took him over to the school so they could rehearse the drop-off process and see other kids going into their classrooms. Have I mentioned that Sir Monkeypants is a kick-ass dad? The Captain already met his teacher at a special parent-teacher-kid interview last week, and he likes her, and we like her, so we’re all ready. It’s going to be really strange for me to have him out of the house every morning, and the Gal gone too for three of those mornings, but they’re ready, and I’m ready, and it’s going to be great.

As for the Wee One, she turned two months old yesterday and is already growing out of most of her 0-3M outfits. I’ve been packing up all the really little baby clothes to pass on to my younger sister, and it’s kind of sad, but also, I’m ready for that part of my life to be over as well. Plus, we are so delighted with the Wee One — she is really friendly and open, and smiles soooo much, Gal Smiley will have some nickname competition some day. She’s just started to look at her hands, so hand discovery and grabbing of things isn’t too far away. She loves to be sung to, and coos along with any kind of music — in the car, where she is often fussy, the Captain will sing songs to her from Thomas The Tank Engine, and she calms right down, and seriously, how cute is that?

It’s a good life.