E's first day of school

As promised (I already feel so behind), here are some photos from Emma's first day of school. She walked right in and put her backpack up on the hook and moved her name over to the "in school" side. She was ready to go. It was much different from this spring when I had to leave her crying every day. She has changed so much over the summer. Her speech has improved tremendously. She not only models and repeats about everything we say (we really have to watch what we say), she is expressing a ton of words and even sentences on her own. It is so neat to see her progress. She loves going to school and is disappointed when it isn't one of her days. She just goes two mornings a week. She always tells me, "I'm ready Mom!" whether it's her school day or not. She has to be at school by 8:15 (that means living by 7:45) so needless to say these photos were taken after she got home. She was so excited to show me the paper in her backpack. The first few days I took her to school and picked her up, but she is starting to ride the bus home. She rides with just preschoolers and Kindergarteners. The first day she did great. This week she'll ride home again. She looks so little climbing off the bus, but the driver said she did great. She said it was fun to ride the bus. She will still have pull-out time with the speech therapist during part of her school day too.