Success!

Paige's 2nd class of On My Own was a success! Not that the first one wasn't a success, but for this one I was outside of the room the entire time and she managaed fine all by herself. At the beginning of the class I walked her in and made sure she knew where I put her snack. I told her I was going to get a drink and would be outside of the room for a while but would see her later. That gave me the option of coming back if she looked like she needed me, or just staying outside. After I got a drink I peeked in the classroom window and she was doing fine. I sat down at the table and played with my new phone for a while and then got up a few times to see her colouring, playing with playdough, doing a craft, reading a book with a few kids and a teacher, participating in circle time and going down a slide. While she was doing this I sat with a group of moms who scared me, I mean, talked to me about labour the 2nd time around.

I was worried about Paige getting her snack out all by herself, but I spied on her and saw her sitting at a table with a few other kids, munching away on her crackers with her water on the table. After that she wasn't sure what to do with her bag and the instructor zipped it up for her and gave it back. She then put it in the bin, and lined up with the other kids to go to the gym. She paraded past with the kids and didn't see me until she was in the gym, where she ran by the window with a huge smile and a wave. In the gym when the class was coming to an end, the class played with a big stretchy hoop. Paige was way across the other side of the room tossing foam blocks over her head, and needed the instructor to come and coax her to join the group, which she did easily.

At the end of the class she came out of the gym and grabbed my hand and kissed it. I took that as she was happy to see my again. But she definitely had a good time by herself. There are 3 instructors to 11 kids, so there was lots of hands on time with all of the kids. So anyway....phew. There was 1 little girl who cried a large majority of the class and would even come over to the glass window crying her eyes out and looking at her mom. I don't know what I would have done in that situation...probably cried right back and taken her out of the class until the next session! Wouldn't have been able to deal with that with everything else that is going on!