A big day is coming up for many little people as they prepare for their first day at school. But one little girl has already been left wiped out as her education journey began last week when Scottish schools returned.
A mum in Scotland has shared hilarious before-school and after-school images taken last Wednesday. Stacey McCullagh, 40, couldn't stop laughing at four-year-old Lyla who was floored by the experience, the Daily Record reports.
Stacey said it was an emotional experience sending her daughter off on her first day of school, but it was also a happy one. The little girl goes to St Mark's Primary School in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, and she clearly found the whole thing exhausting.
When Stacey returned home later that afternoon, her daughter was flat out on the doorstep after what appeared to have been a draining first day. And its quite the contrast with how she looked on her way to school
In the photos, which were shared with the Record, Lyla is pictured in the morning looking straight at the camera, wide awake and expectant. But in another image, taken at the end of the days he can be seen catching flies on the front porch while looking slightly dishevelled, with her bag thrown to the side and her head resting on her sister's lap.
Stacey told the Record: "I felt a bit of mixed emotions because Lyla is my youngest and so it's the last time I'll get to do the first day of primary school.
"I was excited for her to go in, though, because she hadn't stopped talking about it all summer. She kept saying she didn't want to go to nursery anymore, she was ready for school.
"I think if she had been upset, it would have been different for me."
Stacey and her older daughter, Lucy Ann, 17, picked Lyla up from school that day, with the child moaning the whole way home that she was "so tired".
When the family arrived at the house, Stacey realised she had lost her house keys, and so left Lyla and Lucy Ann on the drive for a few minutes while she went to meet the person who had found them.
But when she returned, Stacey was gobsmacked to see Lyla had passed out. Stifling her laughter, Stacey managed to wake the wee one up for long enough to take her in the house where she slept for a further hour and a half on the couch.
When Stacey asked Lyla what she had done at school to make her so exhausted, Lyla said she had "played with sand."
Impressively, Lyla was able to get up fine for school the next morning, but sadly fell and skinned her knee in the playground. When she arrived home, Lyla told her mum that her knee was sore, and asked if she could stay off school.
Stacey added: "I told her she couldn't, but we did put plasters and various band aids on her knee to make her feel better. The whole thing has given us a good laugh."
