Firsts for Alyse

Alyse started preschool this year and absolutely loves it(First day was 8/26). She's a lot more talkative about it than Annie is about school. Each kid's personality is so different. She knew I had taken Annie out to get a new outfit for the first day of school, so asked if she was going to get one too. How could I refuse, even though she has a gazillion clothes/dresses. So, we went to Target and found this dress. She had about 4-5 picked out and ultimately decided on this one. She told me, "This dress is so beautiful. Everyone will think I look beautiful in my new dress. Dad will think it's just beautiful. All my friends at school will love it." It was pretty cute. She repeated this when she put it on the first day.
She looks up to Annie so much and I never realized how much she pays attention to the things she does. On the way to school, she tells me, "Mom, I think I will love my class. It will be beautiful. I can make lots of new friends and have a best friend. And she can come over to my house to play and I will love her." So I told her maybe Maddie will be your best friend (a girls she knows from church) and she said, "No mom, I haven't met her yet." Priceless!
Then we met another one of my friend's girls, Lauren, who is in her class and on the way out I said, "Alyse, did you meet Lauren? Maybe she can be your best friend."
Alyse told me, "No mom, she has short hair. My best friend has long hair like me." Hilarious...fortunately that didn't hold up and her and Lauren are "best" friends.
She always picks out her clothes the night before and the cutest part is that she lays them out exactly how it's suppose to be worn. For instance last night, I put her dress out with her underwear and socks laying on top of the dress. She says to me, "Silly mom, the underwear doesn't go on top of the dress, it goes under the dress." So, she puts the underwear underneath the dress and then takes her socks apart and places each on below the dress, like she would wear them on each foot.




Unfortunately her first day of school also happened to be her first day of soccer practice. Kurt is coaching her team and let's just say Alyse isn't the most into the game. She was so tired that day and pretty much just hung on Kurt's leg the entire time. Granted it was 90 degrees outside. Since that time Alyse told Kurt, "Dad, I promise I won't hang on your leg at practice." Well, she did the next practice, but not as bad. So when we were in the car the next week before practice she tells me, "Mom I promised dad I wouldn't hang on his leg, but I did, so this week I'm going to pinky promise him I won't hang on his leg."