exciting but difficult news

at the end of april percy is going to move into the next age group room at her day care centre! yippee! we've been hoping this would happen since the beginning of the year. it's just a matter of having a space available. and as everyone doing the day care dance knows space is at a premium.

we've been convinced that since january when lots of new babies, some as young as ten weeks, started in the 0-2 age group room with percy, she has started mimicking baby behaviour rather than continuing along her toddler trajectory. she will cry and whine rather than tell us what she might what done differently, or what is upsetting her. and we know she has the vocabulary to tell us, afterall she's done so in the past and occasionaly does so now.
we hope being in the 2-3 year age group will encourage her to behave more in line with her age. of course we could be wrong! perhaps she's in a crying, whining point of time anyways.

the difficult part of this move is that the place available is for the three days wed - fri. paul works a five day week and i a four day week. this means percy is a free agent for one day! actually paul's parents have very helpfully agreed to care for her on mondays. this of course means driving an hour and half to drop her off on sundays and again on tuesdays to pick her up. i tell myself that the 10 weeks that this will occur for, before i start my leave in july and she can stay home on mondays with me, will pass quickly and i won't miss her too much. i'm sure some bright spark will also point out that this means we will get two nites a week toddler free.

we are on the waiting list to pick up the fourth day again as soon as possible. who know's, maybe that fourth day will happen before july.

no more wednesday parents group get-together for me for those ten weeks either.

despite my hesitation this is a big, positive move for percy. more evidence that she is growing up!