Transitions

Zach is starting his 4th week of big boy Preschool tomorrow. The first couple of weeks were pretty tough. I've never done well with transitions & it seems that Zach is that way too. The tantrums & neediness started the Thursday before the school transition (we had preschool orientation that evening). He started waking at least once a night (but up to three times) the night before school started & we've only had two nights since that he slept through.

He had his last Parent/ Tot swim lesson the first Tuesday (Erin usually took him, but I went in with him). He. was. a. mess! Other instructors were making comments about never having seen him act that way before. Ugh. He only does those spectacular tantrums for me. Awesome. He got upset because he wanted to put the red ball in the bucket & another kid got to do it (this tid bit is important).

Zach woke up the FOLLOWING Sunday at 2 AM crying about the ball incident. Boy this kid perseverates on stuff (sounds like someone I know......).

Overall though, it is going well. He is happy to go to school, gets excited to see the teachers & do the fun stuff (they get to go swimming every day in the summer). He had one big boy swim lesson so far & did great. The new teacher commented on how happy he is.

We're still having some issues with the transitions from car to school & school to car. I'm working on some stuff to help him with that.

Hopefully we'll both be getting some consistent sleep soon.