Nursery Horrors

On a whim, we decided to take Sophie into the nursery this past Sunday.  Okay, I decided.  Better sooner than later, right?  She'll be 18 months in a couple weeks anyway, so I figured the nursery leaders would be okay with it.  So we went.  And I sat there for 20 minutes while my "shy" daughter completely ignored me and ran around the room playing with every single toy and every other child in the room.  So I quietly stepped out.

BIG MISTAKE.

It didn't take 2 minutes before she realized I was gone and freaked out.  I'm such a mean mom, right?  So I went back in with her, and it took another 20 minutes to calm her down completely before she would let go of me again.  I think this is going to take awhile for her to get used to.  The only people we've ever left her with are her grandparents and a few select people that she's known well.  And all of those times she's been with them in her own home, which is so much less scary than someplace she's never been.

Anyway, the point is, I should have realized that it would take some getting used to and just stuck it out and stayed, even though I was bored and she seemed to be doing okay.

Hooray for 18 months anyway!

So another thing about Sophie........she only says a few words, and not even all the time.  I know she knows tons of them, because I've heard her say them all before, but she refuses to say them most of the time.  I keep thinking that one of these days they're just going to explode out of her and she'll be forming complete sentences.  It's almost like she doesn't want to talk until she knows she can do it perfectly.  Kind of like walking was for her.  She could do it for months before she decided to actually get up and go.  And she did it darn near perfectly right from the beginning.  Maybe her speech will be the same way, eh?

What can you do?  C'est la vie.