I am sitting at Joy’s Orchids Preschool while Leilani is off to the library with Joy and her daughter Elsa. Joy is nice enough to let me use her computer. We have been coming here 2 days a week together for almost a month, and yesterday was the first time I left Leilani alone with the whole group – 9 kids, 3 adults. During the summer time the preschool turns into a childcare.
She was not doing excellent when I left, but at least reasonably well. I told her 1/2 hour before I planned to go and notified her a few more times in between. When it was time to say bye-bye she requested a hug, held me for almost a minute (longest hug ever) and then just ran off to play with Benjamin and the toy cars. She cried 4 times during the next half hour, every time less than a minute and was easily distracted with a new activity.
To speed up the process – and to make for a smoother start of the actual school year – Joy and Elsa came over to our house for a play date last Tuesday, and today the 4 of us played here and now they are at the library.
Leilani and I really like both, Joy and Elsa, and all other kids coming here are so well behaved and seem so happy, playing, exploring, learning, it’s a great place.
