Mia woke up in the middle of the night on Sunday and had a hard time settling back down, and kept rubbing her ear. She woke up in the morning complaining, "hurting in my ear." Off to the doctor we went, and sure enough, she has a nasty ear infection. Probably due to the runny nose due to teething. She's on antibiotics and keeps asking for "medicine for my ear" (Motrin) as well.
So this week is shaping up to be a little off too. One of these weeks, we'll get back to "normal."
I did a post a few weeks ago about Littles' preschool transition. Well, lucky us. We got to go through it again.
Littles had started in her preschool's summer program. This actually worked out really well, as there were fewer kids and the entire program was a little less formal, so it was a good way to ease her (and us!) into it.
The "school year" officially started last Tuesday, the day after Labor Day. That meant lots of new faces, new processes (for example, a teacher now comes to get her from our car, rather than us parking and walking her in), and new rules (for example, she has to get there by 9:10, and she has to wear a uniform).
So it was almost like doing the transition all over again! Last week was rough, very comparable to her first week in school. She barely napped and was super cranky in the evenings. Normal bedtime is 8:00 PM; last week, she was out before 7:00 PM almost every night.
I also had my first parent-teacher conference :) On the first day of school, we got a note asking us to send pull-ups with Littles. As I mentioned in a previous post, we had been sending cloth diapers that function as pull-ups. Her teachers said they were too hard for Littles to pull on/off and just too much hassle for them, now that the school year had started and there were more kids. Hubby and I were pretty furious, since we had been using them for over three months at that point, with no mention of any potential issues with them.
I asked for a meeting with her teachers and we all sat down after school one day to talk about it. Long story short, once I told them that Littles had been doing pretty well with using the potty at home, the encouraged me to ditch the cloth diapers and the pull-ups, and start sending her to school in underwear.
Poor Littles! She was just getting used to everything around the new school year and we had to throw another big transition at her! On top of it all, she is cutting her last 2-year molar and it is a tough one! So this week was also pretty rough, due to all that.
But she did great. I am so proud of her. She had some #1 accidents on Monday and Tuesday, but the rest of the week, the only #1 accidents she had were when she didn't pull her pants down quite far enough when going on the potty. #2 is another story entirely, as she refuses to go on the potty at all. But we're working on it at home whenever we can, and it's great to have the support of her preschool teachers because most of her #2's are actually at preschool.
Hopefully this week, we'll be able to settle in a little bit and not have so many big changes going on!
