It seems my outgoing little girl, who says hi and bye to everyone, turns into a shy one when there's a crowd. At least that's the way it appears to me.
We have evidence: At her birthday when everyone crowded around to sing to her, she cried. She did the same thing at her Grandma Liccardi's birthday. At our office kids' Christmas party she didn't care for the crafts in rooms crowded with kids.
And at Breakfast with Santa this weekend, all was good for quite some time. But after breakfast when all the kids gathered around for a puppet show and some dancing, our little dancing girl refused to leave my lap. When the crowd broke up into three different areas and no big group was around, she heard some Christmas music and started dancing in the middle of the floor.
This may be one way she takes after me... I'm not a fan of crowds full of strangers either. I like a big group of family or close friends, but the unknown makes me uncomfortable.