Daily Reports - The Best Of (May-August 2013)

Cori has taken Finn off to Ohio, leaving me with quiet, sleep, and a lot of unpacking to finish off! One of my things to do is to write a blog on the Boys-Only trip to the Isle of Man which Finn and I had a few weeks ago, but I thought that I would release a quick post now with the best bits from his nursery Daily Reports.

The 20th of August was the one-year anniversary of Finn being in nursery. In all that time I've been saving his Daily Reports and typing them up onto the computer (despite Cori mocking me for this rather questionable use of my time!). In getting through the stack of backlogged reports last night, some of them are probably worth typing out here, as they are very telling of the sort of toddler Finn is...

6th May
Finn took part in an activity of whole-body painting. He was encouraging other children to touch the paints, by saying "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!", but he was reluctant to touch them himself.

This was typical of Finn at this time, back in May - he did a lot with his "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah", like asking for food, getting us to do something again, or for getting our shoes on and going out the house.

11th June
Finn enjoyed playing with the cushions in the cozy corner; he was hiding underneath them with Conrad.

Conrad is Finn's best friend at nursery - it is really surprising, for us and for Conrad's parents, to see how well they got on together. (Conrad is probably the only child who Finn will share with (though that is only some of the time!)).

12th June
Finn enjoyed a tasting activity. He dipped a lolly stick into a selection of foods to taste and discovered that he really liked the taste of Golden Syrup, which he wanted to keep tasting.

This is a good example of Nursery Report language: for Finn's wanting to keep tasting, understand it to mean that he wanted to eat the whole pot of Syrup and that he (probably) put up a fight when they wouldn't let him do so!

25th June
Finn joined the toddlers outside doing a role-play holiday activity. He really enjoyed pulling a small suitcase along while walking around outside.

The story that they told us around this was that when they split the youngies and the oldies for their activities, Finn was stood at the window between the rooms crying when he saw what the the older children were doing. Without any other real option, they let Finn join in the older children's activity, packing suitcases and going on holiday (which meant carrying them around). The suitcases were far to big for Finn, hence him "pulling" the thing around, by which they meant "dragging". - We were sorry not to see that!

5th July
Finn had a lot of fun playing in the paddling pool with his peers. He had such a good time he was refusing to come out at lunch time. He then went straight back in after his sleep.

... We like Finn!

22nd August
Finn had fun outside today with his peers getting wet with the hose, but only his feet.

I probably agree with Finn on that - the hose was probably very cold!

There are no pictures to accompany these updates / quotes, but I don't think that it's fair not to give any pictures in a post. I am sure that all the good ones will come out in the "August" post, so I will instead give you three awful pictures from the month now just gone (in the Isle of Man, in a lounge with far too many unpacked boxes, and in Weird Land!)...