Second Day of School

Was a little nervous this morning when Ms Z said, "I don't like school!" But I felt a little better when she claimed not to like: Me, underwear, shirts, pants, Otis, the sun, and various other entities. We were laughing about halfway into the list.

Today, we left J-Dogg in the crate, and the two of us walked all the way to school, Zola carrying her lunch bag pretty much the entire way.

When we finally got there, she asked in a kind of distracted way, "Can you come in?" But before I could answer, she was across the room, and playing with some toy or another. I wanted to say, "Goodbye", but also figured that the less ceremony, the better, so I stood and watched for a minute or two, and didn't see her turn around, so I walked back out into the little anteroom to enter the "check in" code.

Some young mom was just finishing up with the security box, we said hello, and as I was punching in, I heard her say to the little girl, "Is that your new friend you were talking about? What's her name? Z___?"

Then I realized I could hear Ms Z crying on the other side of the door. Hopefully it was short-lived. On the plus side...she's somebody's friend!

Whoo-hoo!