Sunday 20 January 2013

Big Week! Almost 8 months!


This week marked a significant change in our family and a milestone for Raina.  

This week Raina has started nursery.  On Wednesday she did a long day, with breakfast at 8am and we picked her up after dinner at 6pm.  When Momma and I picked her up she looked a total mess, like she was casting for a role in the living dead.  She was full of a heavy cold (this child is rarely ill).  She was proudly wearing lace-up boots which we had never seen before. We asked her why she was wearing them and she told us they were hers. "No, Raina, these are your shoes" Momma said holding out her pair of shoes left out on the side.  

The worker interjects to tell us, "I've got two accident forms to give you".  Ah, excellent, this is just getting better.  Raina's fingers had been trapped in a door and the guinea pig, Coco, has inflicted a large scratch across her hand.  We sign the forms and debrief with the worker. She asks us to remind her what Raina calls us, we let her know that Ruth is Momma and I am Mummy.  She then tells us that she heard Raina calling the male SENCO worker, Daddy.  We try to explain how this is just a word and she knows that he's not her Daddy, because she knows her Daddy.  Her Daddy is Black, about 50 years old and lives in another city.  The SENCO worker looks to be early 20's and is White.  

Im starting to consider that maybe Raina is delirious as I look in her rucksack and see she has not drunk a drop of water from her bottle...... grrrrrrr. We get ready to leave and Rainas coat appears to be missing.  "Where's your coat?" I ask. "Don't know....".  The Worker vows to search high and low for it tomorrow. Anyway we leave the nursery, with a heavy cold, war wounds and no coat ( it's about -1 outside) so to get home quicker we make her run home with us, only 2 minutes around the corner. A drink of water, Vicks rub on her chest and Calpol (a parents best friend) and the child is asleep in 5 minutes. 

Phewwww! This new routine is taking some getting used to all round!!!