First settle-in session

Daniel had his first nursery settle-in session yesterday afternoon. It was on 2pm. I specially made him nap a bit earlier just in case he wouldn't settle in the nursery. The nursery is not far from our house (15 Min's walk), as it was not a particular nice day I drove Daniel to there. Despite its central location the nursery has plenty of parking spaces. It locates right behind a public park. This is one of the things I like about this Day Care as I will drop off Daniel by car on the way to work.

There were 8 babes yesterday afternoon. To start with, Daniel just sat there quietly watching the world around him while I was chatting with the nursery deputy manager Karen, who is holding a crying 6-month baby who just started nursery the day. I can see she was quite loving as she held the babe trying to rock him to sleep. She asked me if Daniel is always that quiet. I answered 'you haven't see his true colour yet!' After a while Daniel relaxed a bit, he started to take interest on the toys in other babes' hands, he tried to grab a rattle ring from a 20-month old baby, but didn't succeed as the other one guarded it firmly in his hands. Lucky Daniel didn't mind though! ;)i thought he might cry over this first setback in the nursery. While i was sitting there, couple of babes kept bringing toys to me ( probably thought I am one of the staff), especially a twin, they kept bringing picture books to me asking me to read to them and I did. Just after i had started reading to the twins, very quickly Daniel crawled back to my side declaring that this is his mummy.

Overall, Daniel wasn't that bad at all. The only crying incidendt was at the snack time. Just after i expressed 'how surprised i am that Daniel wasn't cry when one of the staff seated him into the high chair', he bursted into tears with handfull snacks holding in his hands, he must realised that it was not in the home...The session lasted for 2 hours, we left at 4pm and another session was booked for Monday morning...