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A big boy starts pre-school

I’m getting really behind on the things I want/need to blog about. I keep getting post ideas, sticking the title in drafts so I don’t forget it… and then having neither the time nor the energy to write it up!

This actually happened last week – our nursery spoke to us and asked us how we would feel about Oliver moving up to the pre-school room full time. I suspect at the age of two and 4 months, he’s slightly younger than they normally move them up but they had a couple of reasons for wanting to do so – the main one being that a lot of his friends were moving up as well and they thought it would be nice for them to stay together and a new batch of babies had just moved up to the toddler room, making our toddlers look rather large and scary I would imagine!

He has been visiting the pre-school along with some of the other older toddlers a few afternoons a week for quite a while now and apparently he really thrives in there so they were more than happy to recommend to us that he make the switch full time. The process is fairly gradual and child led but all reports so far have been that he loves it in there and gets very excited when it’s time to go in there each day (all children eat breakfast together in the toddler room in the morning before the pre-schoolers go to their own room).

I think David and I have mixed emotions about all this – mainly I feel proud that he’s so independent and completely open to life’s big changes (hey, to a toddler I’m sure a room change is a big deal!) not to mention how well he’s progressing in general at nursery so far. Of course I also feel sad that his toddler nursery days are already behind him and that he’s one step closer to ‘real’ school. I don’t feel ready for that at all but at least being a September baby, he’ll be one of the latest possible starters when the time comes!

Earlier this week I was called to pick him up from nursery because he was poorly with a high temperature – and when I had him home with me all feverish, confused and upset but full of cuddles, I have to admit that a tiny part of me enjoyed it because he felt a little bit closer to being a baby again than he has done recently, since getting so grown up these past few months. Thankfully, the illness was over with all too quickly and he’s now back to his old self again and too smart for his own good.

How is it possible that I am nearly a mummy of two and my eldest is starting pre-school????

Gender musings

I don’t really want to talk too much about the subject of gender now that it’s case closed, as it can be a bit of a touchy subject. However seeing as this is a welcome observation, I thought I’d make note of it.

I think that I’ll never cease to be amazed by the effect that motherhood seems to have on your brain. How it makes you perceive things in a totally different way and react to situations in way that you never would have expected before they actually happen.

Before we had the gender scan, I was worried. I knew that if we were told our baby was a boy, I’d be fine with it in the end but I also knew I’d be disappointed and I was scared to spoil the rest of the pregnancy experience that I’ve always loved so much.

Perhaps I should have given myself (and motherhood) more credit.

My head and heart are now completely reconciled to our new little boy… In fact more than that, I really can’t imagine things any other way. Me and this little boy have already been together for nearly 19 weeks although I didn’t know it yet – how could I ever wish for him to be anybody different? I’m so excited now to see two little boys playing and growing up together.

brothers

I’ve already bought him a few little clothes for himself (well it can’t all be hand-me-downs can it? Where’s the fun in that!?) and I can’t wait for him to be here and wearing them. Of course I still get a little twinge for all that pink stuff (would I be me if I didn’t? :p) but it’s in more of a “Maybe one day..?” kind of way than anything else.

All I know is that right now June just seems like so far away 🙂 I want him here now!!!