Today Peyton went to Mother's Day Out for the first time. She is supposed to be going two days starting in the fall so I thought that we might give it a test-run and send her one week this summer. They have a carpool line where you drop your kids off in the morning and pick them up but since this was her first time to go I wanted to take her in so that she wouldn't feel like I just left her. Well things didn't quite go as I was thinking they would. We walked in and found her classroom and the teacher was standing behind one of those doors where you can close the bottom half and keep the top half open. She immediately saw us and reached out for Peyton. Here I am in complete shock, thinking that I am going to walk my baby into her classroom and explain to her that she is going to stay and play toys and make friends and mommy will be back to get her in a little while, and instead I am handing her over to a strange lady while she is crying out "Mommy, Mommy" and reaching out for me. SO HARD TO LEAVE HER!
I ended up calling to ask the Director a question about Peyton's Blue Form and she said that Peyton had stopped crying after I left and that she was playing in the gym and seemed to be having a good time. As hard as it was leaving her so upset, I was glad to hear that she was playing and having fun. I also talked to the Director about coming in to pick Peyton up instead of going through the carpool line but she suggested that I try the carpool line that way Peyton would see that they "bring her back to her mommy." So I took her advice and picked her up in the carpool line..sweet thing looked so tired when I picked her up (she is used to napping at 11:30 and I didn't pick her up until 1). She loves the gingerbread men cookies at Savage's so we stopped there on the way home so she could have a little treat on such a big day!
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