Don't Look Back...

Yesterday the nursery drop off for Surprise! was pretty horrible - he didn't want to be left, and proceeded to grab on to me and hold tight, while starting to cry. That cry turned into a howl as I handed him over (something to do with having to drop him off, which did mean leaving).

This morning was a very different drop off. He happily wandered in to the room, and didn't even turn back to say goodbye. They I took Funsize to school, and her drop off was essentially the same - in she went, without a backwards glance.

Which was certainly better, and indeed it's good that they're both happy to go and indeed confident in doing so, but still a little recognition would be nice, before they gleefully stride away!

Back to Nursery

Funsize started back at nursery on Friday. They'd been open since the 15th, but we weren't really in a rush to send her - we just wanted to make sure she was eased back into it before LC went back to school next month. So she went, and it seems she had a good day.

I had two concerns prior to the return to nursery. The first was the obvious one about safety, but the truth is that that was always very minor - even before the lockdown her nursery had some fairly significant protective measures in place, and are obviously taking the matter as seriously as possible. Short of us more or less completely isolating ourselves (with all the problems that would bring), there isn't really much more we could be doing on that front.

My other concern was one of socialisation. Being an only child, Funsize has spent the last several months with no other children to play with. And while she's too young to remember all of this once she's grown up, she's not too young for it to have an effect. So, when she returned to nursery, how would she play with other children.

Well, it sounds like she did just fine, which is obviously all to the good. At least, so far so good - she's only done one day so far, so it's possible a meltdown is coming on Wednesday, or perhaps Thursday. But we'll just need to deal with that if it should occur.

Still, that's one more step back to normal life, so that's good.