Well, water broke last night. Hope the contractions start soon.
Oh! Congrats! Keep us posted.
Going to meet the child that we are adopting for the first time on Monday. We have been talking with him on the phone, he's 9, only for a few weeks now though we both have pictures. Road trip from Florida to Texas tomorrow with a stop off at my dads in New Orleans. We will be with him all next week and then he will be moving in with us on the 28th and we are taking FMLA until school starts on the 14th. This is our first child, so shits about to get crazy....
Good on ya! Seriously, that's great. It'll be a helluva challenge, but rewarding and fun. Very interested to hear about how it goes/how you guys find the process.
There really is no substitute for constant social interaction. I've noticed the difference with Pete and other kids he interacts with who haven't been in school/daycare yet.
I'm sure she'll take to it rather quickly as she is still really young. Just make someone else do the drop offs
Best of luck, wooo
Well, it's actually not really her. She's very friendly and is always trying to give stuff to other kids, or interact, or gently touch them. Our experiences have thus far been, however, somewhat unreciprocated? I don't know if it's the area (very clique-y/rich) or the age, but they all have their little groups and haven't really responded at all to her. Makes me kind of sad to see her offering a cracker to a kid who just ignores her and will only talk to his friends right there.
Before we put our daughter in preschool any time we went places with kids, park, kids museum, she would just ignore them completely. Even when other kids tried to play with her she didn't want anything to do with them. Honestly, I think that's pretty normal for a child that young.
Once we put her into preschool though, right before she turned 3, she started doing better. It took time, but after a year she now plays with everyone and is perhaps a little too eager lol
As I mentioned above, it's actually the opposite. She's very keen on other kids, but they've barely given her the time of day so far. And the parents are kind of the same. No one's rude exactly, just not...friendly? I've lived here almost a year now and I can count the number of reciprocated conversations I've had with other parents on one hand. They're always in groups or pairs and don't seem to interested in conversing outside those circles. Not too fussed on my end, but sad to see them give Mia the cold shoulder.
At the park the other day a girl just a bit older was on one of those spinning things and Mia wanted to join her, so the mom noticed and kind of absently said, "You should slow down" (to let Mia get on, I presume), and the girl just sniffed and said "No!" Then the mom turned away and went back to chatting with her other friend. Zero eye contact or even a shrug of "kids will be kids." It's been kind of a thing here at the park, the children's center, the playscape place... Tell me this gets a little better in preschool...?
It could be worse. My son's daycare said he scratched another kid.
I visited him there once, and some girl was grabbing his face.
I feel like that's gonna be my kid...
