Jenna, I hope you're having a very productive day for it being your first day back to work!

Barb, I can somehow totally relate to what you went through last night with Dorothy. And fish aren't "ick"...LOL -although this coming from someone who has flushed a live fish down the toilet just because I got tired of cleaning the fish tank. Damn thing wouldn't die.

I called Hunter's preschool teacher this morning. He has been giving me fits every morning I drop him off since they moved him to the front of the building. He never use to do that in the back. If Ms. Yvonne isn't up front when he first walks in, it's a horrible experience. He never had Ms. Yvonne as a teacher, but she has a class in the back of the building and I think he associates her with being back there. He never wants to go into the "Yellow" room where all the early drop-offs seem to congregate before their normal teachers come in and get them. Yesterday, Ms. Yvonne wasn't at the desk when I dropped him off and it was literally, taking him by his arms to get him to go into the room. It was HORRIBLE. My heart sunk and I just wanted to take him with me. It's so hard to walk out on them when they're like that. I took Connor to the back of the building to his classroom and when I walked back through the front, he was still screaming bloody murder. Ugh.

I got home last night and searched high and low for Ms. Amber's phone number (his regular teacher now). Couldn't find it so first thing this morning, I called her. She said that he's been doing really well in her classroom and seems to be adjusting pretty good. She said that she's noticed that he not really "withdrawn" but is perfectly content sitting on the floor, looking at a book. She wants him up and interacting more with other activities that they have going on in the room and she doesn't allow him sit with a book all day. They have quite a few kids in that class and she said occasionally, she has to raise her voice. She said that combination might make Hunter a little apprehensive and that may be the cause for his early morning tantrums.

Ever since I can remember, Hunter has always played on his own really well. He'd roll a little car back and forth on the couch or on the side of the bed (and still does this...I'm noticing Connor doing it more and more as well). Even know that Connor is here, he'd rather play off somewhere by himself than with Connor. I don't think this means he's socially withdrawn, does it? I don't know - somehow my conversation with her this morning kind of made me feel like a bad parent in a way. I'm sure that was me, taking things to heart and twisting them the wrong way. We don't really go out and socialize a whole lot outside of my family as far as child playdates, etc goes - granted, I have a HUGE family with lots of cousins and around the holidays, he's always interacted really well with that younger group.

I suppose this is just a rambling of sorts. I had to get it out there because his reaction these past couple weeks at drop-off has really taken me off guard and has bothered me. Who would've thought that these little guys (and gals) could pull at our heartstrings so much?!