See ya

I think I mentioned this awhile back, but the daycare at our YMCA allows you to actually leave the building for a couple of hours if you choose.  Since I work out in the mornings before Braedon is usually up I thought it would be nice to take advantage of the daycare every once in awhile so that I could either run errands or just sit back with a coffee and catch up on some magazine reading.  Well, you see Braedon is turning into a very shy boy.  Actually he has always been on the shy side, but it is getting worse.  I have no idea where he gets that from either.  He usually starts the lip quiver before we even enter the daycare room and is in full on tears just seconds after entering.

The daycare rules state that if your child doesn’t calm down and stop crying after 15 minutes then they will either come find you or call you and tell you to come and get your kid.  This happens to me 99% of the time.  Yesterday when I dropped him off I got a phone call exactly 15 minutes later.  This time was a little different though.  You see Braedon wasn’t just crying, he was trying to get the heck out of there.  The daycare ladies said that after I left they tried to sit him down at the snack table with his snack cup and drink.  This usually buys me at least 10 extra minutes.  Not this time.  He wanted nothing to do with his snack cup.  Instead he hopped off his chair, walked across the room and hauled my big diaper bag over to where he was sitting, loaded up his snack cup and sippy cup, tried to put the bag over his shoulder and drug it back across the room to the door and tried to leave.  I guess he did this numerous times.  So when I got the phone call it wasn’t just that Braedon was “having a tough time,” which is what they usually say, it was, “Braedon keeps trying to leave.”

I have to admit, hearing this story made me laugh, but on the other hand it is quite frustrating and I was hoping he wouldn’t get this shy gene.  I struggled a great deal with this same thing growing up and going through school and I wished that none of my kids would go through the same thing.  I would love for them to be the outgoing ones who found it easy to meet new people and make new friends.  Even though he is still young and things can change, I see so much of myself in him.  

Switching subjects, we will be heading back home to Seattle for Christmas break on Monday December 13th!!!  We are very excited and looking forward to the break….and for us the break will start AFTER the 10 hour travel day with a 1 year old.