Thursday, November 19, 2009

Scared of Strangers

My Grandma watches Arlee at our house when we are away at work, my dad usually stops by every morning to.  So Arlee sees them constantly, my mom watches her on Saturdays while we work and Waycos parents get her every few weeks.  She seems comfortable around all of them, which is great, but the people she doesn't see on a regular basis are startig to scare her!  My Aunt came over yesterday, she had been coming over regularly but has been outta town for a month, Arlee started screaming when she picked her up and wouldn't have anything to do with her!  It broke my Aunt's heart!  Then, my friend Lori came over and went to hold Arlee and she did the same thing, she was screaming!  Lori couldn't stand it and tried to get her to be okay but she just wouldn't.  She was fine if I held her and they would talk to her then she would smile, but if they held her the screaming began.  I don't want this to keep happening, I don't know what to do!

On a good note, she can sit up kinda!  Here are some pics




2 comments:

Darci said...

that's how jack still sits most of the time, but its how they all start! that's great!

we haven't had any stranger anxiety yet thank goodness, but i'm assuming its b/c of daycare where he is around different people? IDk though b/c its always the same people, but not family?! But he hadn't seen my mom in over a month and went right to her no problems and he went to you and Jenny no problems - maybe he just doesn't care! that could be bad too!

Anonymous said...

Darci is right... Sounds like Ms. Arlee Bear is experiencing some stranger anxiety. Its totally normal and they "typically" grow out of it. She'll be fine in no time. No worries Momma.