Chloe is almost 18 months now. She has gone to nursery a couple of times. Last week, just because she wouldn’t sit still in our Sunday school class, and this week since we figured we would let her practice before she becomes an official nursery kid. Last week Kyle just took her and stayed with her. He said that she just stayed on his lap for most of the time. This week I took her (since Kyle is a big softy, and I was planning on LEAVING her there for the last part of class). When I took her in I just walked past all the other kids to get out of the way of traffic, and I set her down on the ground. Then I walked away from her to go get her some toys. I wasn’t going to have her cling to me the whole time and make this transition take forever! Anyways she did REALLY well. She came over to the toy bucket on her own and sat down and played. Other kids would try to take things from her, but she just grabbed everything that she was playing with and horded it. I stood a few feet away just watching her. She only looked up to find me a couple of times. So I stood there debating on if I should just leave her alone for the last half hour, or if I should just leave her for the last hour, and she was doing so well that I decided to just leave her for the last hour and go to Relief Society. I told the teachers that I was leaving and I asked them to PLEASE not bring her to me unless it was absolutely necessary. I really wanted Chloe to learn that mommy or daddy WILL come back to get her, and I don’t want her to learn “If I cry they take me to Mommy!” Well when my class got out I passed Tyra, Ethan, Jeremy and Dinah’s classes and went straight to go get Chloe because I didn’t want her freaking out that all the other mommy’s and daddy’s were picking up their kids but hers weren’t coming, but Kyle had already picked her up. I guess she had just fallen asleep in there and one of the teachers was just holding her, but other than that she did really well in there. Next week she will be an official nursery kid! Crazy.
Today Chloe has also started saying two new words! She’s been saying “Mommy”, “Daddy”, “candy”, “jacket” “shoes”, and “doggy” for awhile now (there may be a few others that I’m not thinking of at the moment), but today she picked up “eyes”, and “book”.
We also bumped Chloe to a toddler bed tonight! We knew it was going to happen soon, since we didn’t want to wait until after the baby comes this spring, and have to train her to STAY on her bed while dealing with a newborn. So we figured now was as good a time as any. The tricky part was figuring out where to put the crib in order to make space for the toddler bed in the girls room. So I moved the crib to the center of the girls room, to get the toddler bed in place, then there was no other alternative than to go move furniture around in the boys room and just put the crib in there. We didn’t want to take it apart since we know we are just going to need it for the new baby in less than a year! So after rearranging furniture and putting the boys dresser in their closet under their hanging shirts, the crib fits nicely in the boys room. So it would be really convenient for this baby to be a boy! (But we’ll see what happens.) And Chloe has a big girl bed which she is just thrilled about!