Daycare

Our girl Mia has a bit of a social challenge - she doesn't entertain kids her own age. She will not play with other kids and is showing signs of, well there's no nicer way to put this, being rather selfish! She won't share. She likes it when she's in charge ie she runs around the room and other kids follow her from behind. She gets annoyed if she's not the centre of attention. In short - she's becoming a DIVA.

Aside from that, she is at the stage where she loves to climb on furniture. She climbs up the TV cabinet and tries to push the TV, she has climbed into her brother's crib and even climbs to the top of the sofa in the living room.

At 17 1/2 months, she doesn't say a single word - just babbles. This is worrying. I talk to her everyday and try to get her to repeat. But no, she'll just babble. Only when she's REALLY angry, the word "mama" comes out. This happened only twice so far. Otherwise its just:

• haaaaaaaaaaaah
• tiah tiah tiah tiah tiah

Just last night, she was babbling in her sleep. Cute.

So, we decided to put her into daycare for half the day. A place where she can learn to interact with other kids, get discipline a bit (I hope), and for me, some time for myself to get the house organised aside from take care of Alan without having to keep an eye out for Mia climbing on furniture.

We are trying out a daycare where they speak to the kids in Chinese and English because we want Mia to pick up the Chinese language. After all, she is 50% Chinese.

First, there was the orientation day for her:

She seems to be quite at home here - rearranging furniture already.

Inspecting her new place

Washing her hands because she went to touch a potty

Here are a few pictures of her first official couple of days to Daycare:

Not an early riser!

While still sleepy, she reaches for her schoolbag

Must bring along her towel ("security blanket") and binky

She cried a bit when we left. But other than that she was OK.

Day 2: I drove her to Daycare myself. She held my hand all the way to school.

Once we arrived, she didn't cry at all. In fact she was smiling all the way to her class. She checked out the play area, ran back to me and gave me a big hug, then went to another teacher sitting at the "feeding area", pulled out a chair and starts climbing onto the table. Alamak. Well, at least she's settled in and so I quickly and quietly slipped away.

Let's hope she likes daycare.