Oh BabyGirl!
Sometimes it's hard being the grown up. This time around it was trying to find a way to make the pain all better. This morning Her Higness did NOT feel like going to Kindergarden. She kept insisting that she had a stomach bug - but when I kept asking and explaining what that really meant she finally gave in and admitting with tears flowing and everything that she did NOT want to go to Kindergarden because she would have no one there to play with!
My poor girl! She lost her BFF Sofie this july when her parents moved her to another kindergarden (I still haven't quite forgiven them for that, especially because they promissed Princess I to keep in touch and never did) and by some freak coinsidence there are no other close to 4 year old girls in Her Highness's group and (and those semi-close in age have some socializing issues that make them hard to deal with sadly) thus she is in fact 'all alone' - or you know so it seems when you are almost-for-years-old and kinda tired on a Monday morning.
She ended up agreeing to go anyway and there were no more tears, but I had a talk with one of the teachers and they promissed to keep an eye out for it to see if it's just a 'I'm tired and can't really deal with this' situation or it's actually true that she spends the day just playing on her own.
What eventually brought the mood around was me carving a smiley face into the apple she wanted to have as a snack while we rode there on the bike. Yep, that's right... I totally stole a trick from the playbook of Doctor Who and it worked! I've never seen my kid be as giddy about an apple as she was about this one.
So yeah... it was an interesting way to start the day and I'm trying not to go into full-on overly worried mommy mood, but still - it hurts to see my kid this sad. I just hope that as time passes Carla the new girl will grow into a good friend. She is almost a year Her highness' junior, but maybe it could work.
My poor girl! She lost her BFF Sofie this july when her parents moved her to another kindergarden (I still haven't quite forgiven them for that, especially because they promissed Princess I to keep in touch and never did) and by some freak coinsidence there are no other close to 4 year old girls in Her Highness's group and (and those semi-close in age have some socializing issues that make them hard to deal with sadly) thus she is in fact 'all alone' - or you know so it seems when you are almost-for-years-old and kinda tired on a Monday morning.
She ended up agreeing to go anyway and there were no more tears, but I had a talk with one of the teachers and they promissed to keep an eye out for it to see if it's just a 'I'm tired and can't really deal with this' situation or it's actually true that she spends the day just playing on her own.
What eventually brought the mood around was me carving a smiley face into the apple she wanted to have as a snack while we rode there on the bike. Yep, that's right... I totally stole a trick from the playbook of Doctor Who and it worked! I've never seen my kid be as giddy about an apple as she was about this one.
So yeah... it was an interesting way to start the day and I'm trying not to go into full-on overly worried mommy mood, but still - it hurts to see my kid this sad. I just hope that as time passes Carla the new girl will grow into a good friend. She is almost a year Her highness' junior, but maybe it could work.