Fear, starting potty training in more earnest, and punctuation
Morgan had been wearing my flip-flops last night before bed and she wanted to put them back in our room before she got into her crib. Fine. So she carried them toward our bedroom. But when she got about 5 feet from the door, she put them down quickly, never taking her eyes from the bedroom door, and then turned and ran back to me (I was standing by her door waiting). There was obvious fear in her face as she was running down the hall. She was definitely afraid of the darkness in our room. So we walked back holding hands, turned on some lights, and checked it all out. No problems. But I’ve really never seen her obviously ‘scared’ before.
Quite a few of the older kids in her classroom have recently moved up to the preschool room (which you do at about 33 months). As a result there is a dearth of kids who are in the middle of potty-training. So they are going to move Morgan on to that stage and start working with her. Best I can tell, this involves more frequent trips to the bathroom, more discussion of big girl underwear, more discussion of keeping diapers dry, etc..
Morgan has started repeating EVERYTHING! The other morning we were talking about a new kid in her class, Lawrence A. And she said “no hitting Lawrence A.” And I said “Did Lawrence hit you?” Her: “Nooooo.” Me: “Did you hit Lawrence?” Her: “Yessssss.” Me: some discussion of how it isn’t nice to hit people. Her: “No hitting Clara D.! No hitting John W.!” Me, in my head: are we talking ‘no hitting Clara’ or ‘no hitting, Clara’? That is, is she repeating something that was said to her or is she repeating something she overheard a teacher say to someone else? At any rate, I asked the teachers and they said there haven’t been any problems.