Max's first day at church nursery

This weekend Max has stopped taking his morning nap. Turns out, he's totally great with this and sleeps without fussing in the afternoon. I guess it's been time for a while. Anyway, this made it time for Max to start going to church with Ellie and I. Even though he won't sit in church and won't go to sunday school, I still want to get into the routine and have him meeting some kids his age at church. David said he'd come with me to help becuase usually taking Max to church is a chore. When we arrived at church, we decided to let Max give the nursery a try. This was not necessarily the plan. He seemed amicable to it. I put him down, took off his jacket and let him start looking around. There was one other boy there, a three year old named Colin. There was a nice teenage girl who was working there who started playing with Max and showing him around right away. This was great for him. I let him play and watched for a few moments. As I stepped towards the door, he ran over to ask to be held, so I did. Then I took him back to the toys. He dove in and started playing without any fussing. So, I decided to leave him and see what happened. I told the lady in charge to please call me if he cried, that I'd rather come out of church to help him get used to it, as opposed to having him hate it. She agreed that was her approach too. So David and I set off to church.

I watched my phone with anticipation through the whole service and there was no call. Halfway through the last song, we bolted as I couldn't wait any longer to see how he was doing. As we approached the room I listened and heard nothing (specifically, no crying). When we went around the corner, he was happily playing with w truck on a table. He smiled when he saw us and ran to give me a hug and Daddy his car! The ladies told me he did great. He only had one moment of partial sadness, apparnetly when he couldn't get a toy to do what he wanted. I'm so proud of him!