Toddler Room Transition

We recently met with PJ's teacher at daycare to talk about moving up to the new class.  Somewhere between 12 months and 15 months PJ will have to be at the following milestones!

• One nap, which starts shortly after lunch, noonish.
• Currently PJ takes two naps.  In fact at home his naps last two hour each.  The morning nap is going to be hard to give up, but 'they' say it just happens so we(actually just me) will try not to worry.  
• Eat with utensils off of a plate and handle a spill-able sippy cup. 
• Currently PJ does use a sippy cup, but has a tendency to shake it and swing it around when he has had enough.  PJ is not allowed to have a plate without complete hovering supervision because he likes the sound it makes when he smacks it against the table.  He is so excited about the noisemaker I don't even think the food is noticed before its all over the place.  As for utensils, well we will have to start letting him use them.  With the cup and plate flying around we hadn't thought adding a spoon or fork was a good addition, but we will try. 
•  No more bottles. 
• Actually this is just a preference, but we would like to be done with bottles at 12 months too.  I don't look forward to the parenting experience but we will both be better when its all done. 
• Real shoes, so that he is prepared to go outside.  
• Finally, something we can do today.
• Be bored in the infant room. 
• A majority of the babies in the infant class are PJ's age so they are busier and more active than the normal infant room.  We were told the infant room usually has more age variety range from 3- 12 months.  The plus to this is that we have time to accomplish the first two bullet items that seem so far away for our son who will be 1 year old in just two weeks!

So PJ isn't ready for the Toddler room yet, but I am surprisingly in no rush.  I love his current teacher, and she adores him.  That will be hard for both of us to transition from.  I thought for sure I would be frustrated and a nervous wreck if PJ wasn't meeting milestones soon enough; I am super competitive after all.  Instead I am enjoying PJ becoming his own little person as a supporting momma.  I do very little comparing to other children and thoroughly enjoy watching him discover life at his own pace.  I know that he will reach all these milestones, some early some later compared to other kids, but all perfectly on time for PJ!

-K