Jake Waking Up

Yesterday was a fairly tough day with Jake. He didn't wake up at all happy and sometimes we suspect that the problem is because we were all home.

There's not been much to suggest that Jake is disturbed by a change of routine but he's so often used to having either one parent or the other out at work that we sometimes think that having us both at home causes him anxiety. There's always one of us at home with him but not normally both of us especially in the mornings.

It took a couple of hours for Jake to start to relax and this was mainly due to the hard work of N. who applied herself to trying to distract Jake from his bad state of mind. Later on in the morning we went out to do more shopping and in the afternoon I took Jake out for a 45 minute walk in his wagon before I went to work. Sometimes work is a welcome relief although I can honestly say that I don't ever really look forward to going but then who ever does?

This morning Jake has gone to daycare. We send him there three mornings a week to try and help him socialise with other children. We think there's been some benefit to this but progress is slow and we can never be confident as to what kind of morning he's going to have.

He was tough to wake up this morning but thankfully he did with lots of smiles (a marked contrast to yesterday) but declined all normal forms of breakfast before out of desperation I was able to persuade him to eat a couple of cookies just before we left. Not exactly breakfast food but I felt better getting him to daycare with at least something in his stomach!