New Room

Dylan has been alternating between doing okay in the new room and sending her new teachers into the depths despair. She's been cranky (Cranky 2.0: now with added violent back-arching and a shudder-inducing guttural noise!) at home since we got back from the trip. I don't know if all the travel threw her or what. I am ready to throw her myself. I think the idea of a gradual transition between classrooms is not implemented quite as described ("Teachers from the new classroom will come visit your child in his/her current classroom. Your child's teacher will take him/her to visit the new classroom to play for a little while with a familiar face nearby.") and not working that well anyway since she cries when they take her our of the old room.

But in general this is going to be great for her once she gets used to it. One of the teachers in particular is AWESOME. She has been so communicative and concerned to make sure she is doing everything to make the change easier. She checked to make sure she was saying Blumkin correctly because she had been using it to rhyme with pumpkin in the lyrics of a song she had made up to cheer Dylan up. The teachers in the old room never even figured out (or, I suppose, listened to me tell them) how much she likes music. The babies in the new room are 9 to 18 months. It's a lot more fun to visit the room because the older babies understand a lot and toddle around everywhere.

Next week she'll only be there three days, so that will throw her, so I'm guessing she doesn't settle in very well for a few weeks still.