Nursery anxieties

After 2 weeks in nursery, I am beginning to get little worries about whether this nursery is the best for you. You do seem to be settling in but the carers seem to always be over enthusiastic about how good you were which makes it seem a little fake. They say you eat all your food ALL the time but yet when you come back you seem hungry and finish your dinner in 10 minutes. From your daily sheet, it seems like you always nap during meal times but they say they keep the food for you. When I brought it up, they say its better to allow the child to set the routine. They say there are organised activities of circle time or messy play but I have not seen any in the few days that I picked you up early.

What irritated me was finding a dummy next to you in the pushchair you were sleeping in a few days ago. Today, when I picked you up early after Richard arrived, I saw that dummy in your mouth while you were sleeping!! I was furious and when brought it up they insisted that it was left in the pushchair and you must have put it in yourself. You have also developed another flu just as I thought you were getting better. There's also evidence of some nappy rash.

Sigh.. Am I being over-protective? Am I being paranoid? Am I expecting too much from nursery? I wonder if these worries are normal? Are all nurseries like that? Do I have any other choice? I only want the best for you. IF only you can tell me what really goes on the whole day. The only thing that reassures me is that you always smile when I drop you and will smile when I pick you up. Again, maybe I have to just trust in God to take care of you.

First day at nursery

In summary, it was better than expected :) Thank God.

You were not perfectly behaved, but at least you did not cry, finished your breakfast, drank 3oz of milk (better than nothing), slept a total of 1.5 hours (better than nothing) and gave me a huge smile and extended your hands towards me when I came to pick you up. My heart just melted and gave you a great big hug smothered with kisses!! You can only imagine the amount of will power taken not to call the nursery to find out how you were getting on throughout the day.
On the down side, you hardly ate any lunch or tea and had really dirty clothes for me to wash. I was not too surprised that you did not eat lunch as it was your first time tasting chicken and tomato pasta bake :) Adding to that, you did not like tomatoes when I tried giving it to you previously. Hopefully you will get used to the English menu with time. I had a shock at the state of your shirt as it has never looked close to this in the past 7 months, not even when you first started to eat solids. I wonder if they used the plastic, 'collect it all' bib that I purposely left with them.

You must have been really hungry at dinner time as you finished 200mls of porridge. Today was also the first time you fussed for sleep at 7 plus and was asleep before 8. Unfortunately you woke up once at 10.15, could not be hushed and demanded to be fed. I really hope that your sleep will not be too fragmented tonight. I pray that you will settle down more tomorrow and perhaps nap your total 3 hours and drink your full 5oz of milk :) I am sure you will enjoy the food one day as you love solids.

Nursery

Although we have paid the deposit for a nursery near our place, the kiasu I made your dad make an appointment to view the nursery in his hospital as the fees there is about half of what we will be paying in the nursery that we have booked. It was reasonable as your daddy will be there for at least 2 years and that nursery is highly recommended. Alas, the waiting list is very long!!

So, next week will see you going into nursery and making a hole in our pockets. Our little hoodie, please don't become a scouser.