Growing pains
NikkiZ got moved up to the Toddler Class last week. Neither she or I seem to be transitioning well. I can tell she misses the “baby” treatment from the younger class: the rocking chair, the baby food, and the teacher was fantastic and NikkiZ would leave my arms to go to hers.
I’m not handling it well either.
This class is waaaay too grown-up for my liking. The kids eat at a table with chairs – a teenie tiny table with teenie tiny chairs. No high chairs. The kids eat school lunches (yesterday was beef stew that NikkiZ evidently LUVED) and not baby food. They sleep on cots and not cribs. They have a pre-set naptime: 12-2pm. All of the things I was convinced NikkiZ wasn’t old enough to be a part of. I kept saying, “She’s not old enough. She’s still a baby!”
Of course, she’s doing great. Making a mess a lunch time, staying still on her cot at naptime, an doing her signs for “eat” “more” and “all done.” I’m having a hard enough time coping with my pre-teen turning into a teenager, I don’t want to lose my baby too.
LilZ and I decided last night that the solution would be if every year, instead of getting older, you just duplicated yourself a year older and also leaving behind a copy at the old age. That was we can continue to enjoy the current years without missing out on the future fun. And as LilZ put it: “Eventually, she’d be able to change her own diapers that way.”
We’re genius.
Sorry about the growing pains, but with a pre-teen like LilZ, don’t you want to see how NikkiZ will grow up? I mean – “Eventually, she’d be able to change her own diapers that way.” *That* statement is genius! There’s another excellent writer in the making in the Zoot family in LilZ.
That is great!! I love it. That actually explains alot about myself!!
every week I tell my baby she has to stop growing for just that week, but the kid never listens to me! I’m just going to start requesting that she duplicate herself now, so her old self can continue to grow, if she is going to insist upon growing up! Excellent solution Zoot family!
It gets better/easier.
I remember when Busy Girl moved up to the Toddler Room and I was so upset about them feeding her regular food. I decided that I was just going to have get over it, and, her first day there, they served chili!
She loved it.
LilZ is a smart guy!
I COMPLETELY understand how you feel. I’m not even at the half-marathon stage of my running yet, I’m still plugging away at 5Ks.
I know you can do it and you just have to tell yourself that with every step.
Why do they have to grow up so fast?!?!?!
We just put away our kid’s high chairs. I cried for 15 minutes.
Or maybe we could freeze a copy of them at about 18 months and pull it out every time we need to squeeze some chubby thighs. (Thaw before squeezing!)
Waaaaaaaaah~ My “baby” turns 11 months old today and I can’t stop crying!!!! I hear they just keep getting better and better, but I’m not convinced–how could it get any better than this age?
LilZ amazes me more and more every time you mention him. He really is brilliant!
And cots? Are you kidding me? And NikkiZ actually stays on the cot? Is she super-glued down? Because there is no way that my Drake would lay on a damn cot (though he totally did eat his dinner sitting at a plastic picnic table this weekend)!