I am guilty of grossly underestimating how hard this move would be on Kay. I spoke with her nurse/doctor from home last night at 2 am because I was desperate for some guidance on her sleep. As the nurse put it...”You have rocked her world. Everything is different; people look different, they talk in a different language, she is in a new home and room, she has left her friends/family, she switched from crib to bed, she has a new school, and you and your husband are her only constant.” When I told her Craig is also gone now during the week she said “oh yeah, you are in for it for awhile if you are the only constant...” Just the words I wanted to hear after struggling until 10 pm to get my two year old to bed!
On a positive note... Kay is almost done with her thumb sucking! She has been getting sick a lot and her teeth are moving very badly from it. I know this is yet another change for her! We are around so many people and ride so much public transportation that the sucking was a perfect avenue for the germs. We have been working on it for several weeks. We have been using lots of encouragement and a magical nail polish that had 800+ positive reviews on Amazon. Now when we ask her if she sucked her thumb during the night she says "no way!" She (and we) are proud of her progress. So far so good....
Kay graduated to her new classroom this week (another change- oh my!) The kids move up at 2 years, 8 months. She LOVES it despite being exhausted. Yesterday we were going to go on a play date and she got very mad because she wanted to go to school instead.
Overall, we are hanging in there. Sometimes I feel like it is by a thread, but we are hanging in there. Like most things in life... this too shall pass and I am sure we will forget about this phase until we look back in our blog book in the years to come...In the meantime, we will continue to enjoy the snuggles and little girl giggles when we get them!
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