Preschool countdown

Today was the first day of school here in Waverly.  Many of Emily's peers are starting at their preschools this week.  Emily doesn't start until after Labor Day.  She has asked many times if she can go to school yet, so we finally made a paper chain to represent the number of days before her school starts.  It was a long, drawn-out project over several days, but she was pretty proud of the results.  Here she is with the finished chain modeling one of her new "preschool" outfits.  Making the chain was one thing, but convincing her she can tear off and throw away a link each day is going to be quite another.  She already informed me that she would "rip it when I start preschool."  Unless, of course, Lincoln gets to it first.  Oh well.  At least we practiced some cutting and gluing skills.  I think I'm almost as excited as she is for her to go to preschool.  That chain looks awful long. ;o)