Young Toddler

This week, they have been transitioning Troy from the Infant room to the Young Toddler room. This room is a transition room between Infant and Toddler. Apparently, they start to learn skills they need for the older class; like sleeping on cots, having one nap a day, drinking out of a Sippy Cup, moving away from bottles to more solid foods, and eating at a table instead of in a highchair.

We are apprehensive about this move, as it represents his first significant change since he was cognizantly aware of what was going on around him, and we are quite fond of the teachers in the Infant room. Also, we're not thrilled about the prospect of him moving onto school food, as we'll have no say in what goes into our son's body. So far, we have been keeping him on a very clean, very organic diet. Now, he'll start getting pumped with preservatives and canned food. They claim that this is the only way that they can manage the various food allergies that the kids have, but it limits our choices as parents.

The potential up side to this move is that he'll now be around older kids with more advanced skills, which should help him progress faster in things like getting on a more-defined schedule, walking, and being more independent with drinking and eating. I did notice and think it was funny that he's the same size or bigger than all of the other kids in the class, despite the fact that some of them are 18-24 months old!