Peyton's Rough Week

Last week was a rough week for Peyton. Combine spending 10 days on vacation with your family, new teachers in her classroom and the beginning stages of separation anxiety for our 8-month-old and you're sure to have a problem.

Peyton started out the week crying around our extended family. She clearly wanted her mom and her mom only. Daddy was okay but only sometimes. She went back to school after vacation and there were a lot of changes in her classroom. All new teachers and somehow our 8-month-old knew that these people were strangers. Her old teachers, now in different classrooms, would tell me how excited she would get when she would see them during the day and how she would stop crying. In fact, one day I came to pick her up from school and after I picked her up from her classroom we were on our way to Austen's class upstairs. All of a sudden, Peyton started going crazy, kicking her legs and waving her arms. I realized that Peyton was excited about the lady entering the classroom in front of us. It was her old teacher! I didn't recognize her from behind at first but Peyton sure did.

Anyway, Friday seemed to be a better day for her. She was all smiles when I came to pick her up so hopefully the weekend didn't destroy that progress. She has also been working on crawling. She started on Labor Day and has been getting faster this week. Like Austen was at her age, she's fascinated by Adler's food and water bowls. See her in action...