Yesterday was another Monday and another day at Ladybirds nursery for Burton. For those of you who have been following our little nursery journey (for this who haven’t here is part 1 and part 2) you will know that last week he didn’t want to stay and got upset at me leaving him, which as some of you will know from first hand experience, or can imagine, was not nice for either of us and left me feeling very guilty. However, the good news is that after an hour or so he did settle in and enjoyed his time there in the end. You will also recall that we have a little mystery in the guise of his ‘friend’ Jordan who daddy and I are not sure is real or imaginary.
So, knowing how upset he got last week everyday since all the family has been ‘bigging’ nursery up again and everytime we asked him what we were doing that day he has replied ‘ladybirds’, so we know he wants to go and is excited about returning. So on the drive over yesterday I was talking to him about what he might get up to and he was chatting about it with me and seemed fine with having to go. That is until we stepped out of the car……his key worker Catherine waved too him and he went all shy and refused to walk into the building with me. So I had to carry him in and once inside he wouldn’t leave my side and go off with any of the members of staff. I got him to show me the ‘Gruffalo’ collage on the wall and started playing a shopping game with him and everyone I started to say goodbye he got teary and said “no mummy”. After three attempts I said I was going and he began to follow me so one of the staff picked him up and he was really crying and calling me and I turned and walked out fast because I got upset this time!
Anyway, four hours later when I retuned to collect him he was happily playing with a group of children in the messy playroom and was smiling and enjoying himself. I watched him for a couple of minutes before he spied me! His report this week read as follows:
Burton had an unsettled first hour today but cheered up a lot during a group activity in the quiet room, talking about ‘our weekends’. He was telling a little girl that she needed to out her shoes on to play outside, and he chatted about having to wear his coat to play outside with mummy.
He seemed to love the Duplo trains an chose to stay inside with Tanita (who works there) after lunch and had fun helping her to sweep the floor!
I can just imagine that Tanita didn’t have much choice in letting Burton ‘help’ her sweep up! Echoes of “me can do it” can be heard in my head!!
I also find it strange that he doesn’t want to go outside and play because he loves playing outdoors. Mind you I overheard him telling Granma today that he stayed inside where he could “wait for my mummy” awww!
I also find it strange that he doesn’t want to go outside and play because he loves playing outdoors. Mind you I overheard him telling Granma today that he stayed inside where he could “wait for my mummy” awww!
Before we left he showed me his new coat hook in the cloakroom 🙂
Appropriately he is part of the ‘monkey’ group!!
On the way home in the car it was really sweet as he insisted on holding Jenson’s hand all the way
Right so I know that you are all dying to hear about Jordan!!
Well, its funny really and I feel stupid having to admit this on my blog but following last weeks nursery post Paula from MummyVsWork commented saying that her daughter also had a ‘friend’ called ‘Jordan’ when she started nursery and as soon as I read that I thought to myself now thats a strange co-incidence! Paula went on to explain that it was actually children !!
So armed with this vital information, the next morning I asked Burton to say the word ‘children’ to me and surprise surprise it came out as ‘Dawden’ (which I had taken to mean Jordan!). Yes, ok you can stop yourselves from laughing now! I have had plenty of that from friends and family. What makes me laugh though, is that Burton went along with his friend ‘Jordan’ and gave us a description of his eyes and hair colour and how tall he was and kept telling us he was HIS friend!! Funny boy.
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Ah ah ah ah ah ah We solved the mystery of Jordan!!!! How funny!
Good on him for starting to enjoy himself at nursery, I hope it’ll be a little bit easier every week.
Awww, bless him. So cute! I love the photo of them both in the car too. xx
Lol, I love Dawden! It’s hard when they get upset at nursery but they do get past that stage. They forget they ever felt that way but you remember it forever. Dawden will be talked about when he brings his first girlfriend home (along with the baby bath pictures.)
haha, glad you solved that mystery then!
Bless him that he didn’t want to go outside – he probably thought that he would miss you coming to pick him up if he did!
Jack cried this morning when I left him too, which shocked me…it’s so hard isn’t it
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Funny! It can be difficult to make out what they are saying sometimes – more than once I’ve jumped to the wrong conclusion.
I love the “Me can do it!” 🙂 It sounds like he is making so much progress and the hand holding is so sweet (although the look on J’s face kind of says …”oh ok B, why do you want to hold it ALL the way?”). The bit where he was waiting for you made my heart jump a bit, so lovely.
I love tales of Burton’s nursery trips. How cute is that photo with him holding Jenson’s hand, that is too cute? LOL re Jason that is very funny, but I would have been the same. xx
Oh my god that photo of the boys holding hands in the car is just too cute – Jenson’s face is a picture! 🙂 x
thank you it makes me smile every time Burton holds his brothers hand and then tells me as i am driving to “look mummy” x
thank you I am glad you have been enjoying them 🙂 and yes i think its very cute too x
oh i know when I heard him tell his granma I could have cried! bless him x
its so hard sometimes isn’t it? i wonder how they make out what he is saying at nursery if i am honest! x
oh no did he Helen? maybe he is feeling a little off colour and therefore more sensitive to having to go? it is VERY hard x
thats the things isn’t it, we will remember but i guess its better that way x
thanks Emma x
hee hee i know bit of an anti-climax really in the end! x
I actually think it’s because he’s a little OCD…I usually give him a kiss, then he gives me a big hug, then he sits down…today he sat down & I kissed him – he came running after me sobbing that he didn’t have a kiss & a cuddle! x
I promise you that he will get better, trust me! However, it must be a bit devastating at the moment, but he will adjust, and it’s good for him to mix in with the other children and have other adults care for him. And trust me, I know how hard it’s been to put him in, you know I do.
Love that he was saying ‘children’.
Love the fact the mystery is solved…. it took me at least a month to work it out 😀
He will get more social as he gets used to it, it took Kayleigh a while & now she loves it 🙂
Bless his little cotton socks – I would have never guessed that he meant children. So cute. As all the other ones have said, it’s good for Burton and once he’s got used to going to nursery, he will cry when you pick him up because he’s having so much fun x
neither did I which is why i (wrongly!) assumed he meant a boys name! yes it is good for him and he will soon want to stay I am sure x
its a shame in a way as I was hoping to get some more blog mileage out of the mystery lol!! anyway you were the solver of it so thank you!!
i am sure he will want to stay eventually – they are so young it is only natural to want to be with his mummy xx
yes I know it will eventually, they are just so young to be going out in to the big wide world (or 4 hours of it!) and it is not surprising that he wants his mummy to be there too. i know you feel the same x
yes it is funny isn t it, especially as he went along with the whole Jordan thing! x