the littlest hungerstriker
Sep. 9th, 2011 01:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraDay three of the zero-preschool-intake thing (despite the big-gun temptation of olives and sausage). She was crying "I won't eat or drink! I won't eat or drink!" in the car on the way this morning; I tried to convince her to add "so long as I'm unjustly imprisoned!" but she was having none of it.
This morning was pretty wretched. While she was getting dressed she asked what day it was and I told her Friday and she thought for a minute and started crying and said she wanted to stay home, which, hey, I guess she's getting the days of the week thing down, but, oof. A lot of sorrow and worry at breakfast and after - she kept talking a lot about sleeping at school and I should bring her bed and I should pick her up after nap, which is something we've talked about, that next week I'll be picking her up later - it was hard to tell if she was dreading this or insisting that it happen today. When we got to school she was inconsolable, despite my efforts to interest her in the play kitchen or the water table (exciting pink-dyed water today!). I eventually left her curled up on a pillow sobbing with a book.
After all that, though, maaaaybe a better day than Wednesday; it finally stopped raining, so they were able to go outside, and it sounds like she had fun at the playground, and she said they listened to music and seemed happy about that.
I hope it's going to work out. It occurred to me that if she really just can't adjust and the school advises we pull her out, we would need to be applying *now* for a September 2012 slot, if we wanted her to go somewhere nicer/cheaper/whatever. (She'll have a zillion more options in 2012, past the 2.9 age cutoff; we'd figured we'd keep her at this one for continuity, but if she doesn't actually go this year, that's no longer a consideration.) It feels weird to start pursuing that when things could totally look better in a few weeks, but if in fact things fall through for this year, I would hate to also blow our shot at making something good come out of that.
This morning was pretty wretched. While she was getting dressed she asked what day it was and I told her Friday and she thought for a minute and started crying and said she wanted to stay home, which, hey, I guess she's getting the days of the week thing down, but, oof. A lot of sorrow and worry at breakfast and after - she kept talking a lot about sleeping at school and I should bring her bed and I should pick her up after nap, which is something we've talked about, that next week I'll be picking her up later - it was hard to tell if she was dreading this or insisting that it happen today. When we got to school she was inconsolable, despite my efforts to interest her in the play kitchen or the water table (exciting pink-dyed water today!). I eventually left her curled up on a pillow sobbing with a book.
After all that, though, maaaaybe a better day than Wednesday; it finally stopped raining, so they were able to go outside, and it sounds like she had fun at the playground, and she said they listened to music and seemed happy about that.
I hope it's going to work out. It occurred to me that if she really just can't adjust and the school advises we pull her out, we would need to be applying *now* for a September 2012 slot, if we wanted her to go somewhere nicer/cheaper/whatever. (She'll have a zillion more options in 2012, past the 2.9 age cutoff; we'd figured we'd keep her at this one for continuity, but if she doesn't actually go this year, that's no longer a consideration.) It feels weird to start pursuing that when things could totally look better in a few weeks, but if in fact things fall through for this year, I would hate to also blow our shot at making something good come out of that.
