Toddler Time!

Ready for his first day in Toddlers

Today was a big day for Avery, he started in Toddlers at daycare, and is now in the Rainbow room. It may only be down the hall from where he has been but it will be a whole new world for him. The big changes in his new room are: he will eat his meals in a chair at a table with other kids, he will get to make choices on where to go and  what to play with, he will nap on a cot and the biggy Avery now will get to go outside, run and be free (with supervision). Before today, Avery visited the toddler room now and then and got to experience  what the toddler room is all about. He always did great on his visits, and cried when it was time to go back to Infant but still for some reason I was a little nervous for his move. I know many moms/dads can relate to this feeling, even though we all know our kids will love their new room,  but it is a big change for the kids and it’s only natural to be nervous. But no matter how big of a change it might be for the kids, it is an even bigger for the parents, our babies aren't babies any more, they're toddlers. In the paper work we got before his move there is actually a page that talks about how for some parents this change can be as hard for them as it was leaving their children at daycare for the first time. For me I wasn't actually nervous for Avery's move until after we toured his new room a week or so ago, That is when I realize how different the Infant and Toddlers rooms were (In infants, it was more one-on-one as they taught to eat, crawl, walk etc and in Toddlers they get the chance to do more things for themselves). It was a great tour, we got the chance to see all the great new things he would be exposed to and all the space he would be given to grow and learn on his own (scary things right :) ). Honestly, my nerves didn't last long, I knew he would be fine and love his new room. So when it came time to drop Avery off this morning my nervousness was totally gone and had been replaced by curiosity and anticipation for how his day would go, in my head I just couldn’t see Avery sleeping on cot (and not running around the room) but he did, and he ate with his new friends, found things to play with and loved sitting at the top of the big slide outside. As expected, Avery did great! It’s official Avery is now a toddler!

Checking out his new big boy cubby