First Day of Preschool!

Guess what, friends?

I went to school the other day! And not Katie's school, either! I went to the pre-school where Katie's Mom teaches. It's at JSU, too, between the music building and the scary purple building where kids used to live...and then it got closed...and now kids live there again.

I can't read, but preschool has fancy headphones so I can
LISTEN to stories!

Preschool is a school for little kids who are 3 or 4 or 5. I'm not 3 or 4 or 5, but I am pretty little. Most of the kids were my size! At preschool, you read stories and do arts and crafts and eat snacks and play games and go to the playground and see your friends! I even got to play in a cave!! Bears like caves, you know!

I drew Katie an awesome picture!

A bear in its natural habitat.

I made lots of new friends at preschool, too! (I make new friends everywhere I go, and I love it!) The day I went was a special day, because it was Teddy Bear Picnic Day! So there were other bears there, too: big bears and small bears and floppy bears and tall bears and brown bears and blue bears!

It was such a pretty day to have snacks with friends!

Katie's Mom told me that they had been studying bears ALL WEEK at preschool, and this was a special party! (The kids call her "Ms. Brenda," and that's weird to me, because her name is obviously "Katie's Mom." And they all called me "TB," because they couldn't remember "Trash Bear!" Silly kids!)We got to go outside and have snack time on a picnic blanket! It was so much fun! We ate chips and had juice boxes to drink. I learned that juice boxes are hard for bears to open (and even hard for some of the little kids!) But it was ok. Katie's Mom and the other teachers helped us open things. That's what teachers are for.

Here I am in Katie/Little E's locker! This is what you call
"coming full circle!"

I also learned lots of fun things about Katie's Mom's preschool. This is the SAME preschool that Katie went to when she was 4 years old. I'm not very good at math, but Katie told me that that was almost 17 years ago! I may not know how old I am, but I know I'm not THAT old! Katie's Mom let me sit in the locker that Katie had when she was in preschool, and that was pretty cool. Technically, it's not Katie's locker anymore; it belongs to my new friend Little E, but Little E was nice enough to let me take a picture. Katie's Mom got a little emotional about it when she took my picture; something about how her little girl was all grown up and stuff. (I can see where Katie gets all her emotions and picture taking from.)

I had so much fun at preschool with Katie's Mom and all my new friends. I think I want to go back to school someday. But maybe not EVERY day. You have to wake up really early to go to preschool, and, next to juice boxes and chips and friendship, sleeping is my favorite thing. Maybe if I can go to school only in the afternoon........

~Trash Bear (and Katie)~