1 September 2009

I hoped my nerves didn't show as I took Emily to nursery Ui for her first day involving eating and sleeping there. She did cry slightly as I dropped her off, but I hurried off to my exercise class and tried to put her out of my mind. In the end, she apparently had a great day and the staff said she did fantastically well, eating all of her lunch and then sleeping for an hour. Most of the children sleep on small futons but they do have a few cribs and she was in one of them. I had packed Goki to help her settle, and maybe that was what did the trick. She was clutching him when I arrived, and did not let go of him once for the rest of the day, even while at a playground on the way home. In her nursery record book there was a photo of her sitting on a wall at a nearby park with about 10 other children, all with matching pink hats on and sipping from their drink bottles. It was very heartwarming, while bringing home to me that she will have sets of memories in which I do not feature.

As we approached our apartment building I let her out of the buggy, as usual. She wanted to go and explore in the bushes outside, and gave me a cheeky little smile then said 'bye bye, take care'. I have no idea where she got that from as I don't think I say it.