Catching up
I woke up at 5:11 AM, courtesy of the time change, and decided to go ahead and start my day, in order to get a wee bit of free time to myself. We have to get up earlier now in order to maximize our limited daycare time, so we're taking advantage of the time change to train ourselves to be the early risers that we naturally aren't.
There are all kinds of things I haven't been writing about.
1) If all goes well, I'll get a new boss sometime in the next week or two, and things will get less hectic.
2) We're trying to jumpstart our social life, particularly the kids-and-parents part of it, partially because we're going to need playdates and babysitting swapping, with Dutch home in the afternoons, and partially because Dutch's birthday is coming up (this is NOT a sneaky bid for presents, by the way - that kid has more stuff than you'd think any non-home-owner would need) and we realize we don't have any invitee prospects to a kid-based party. So we're quickly reviving some friendships from last winter's Indoor Park adventures, in the hopes of being able to assemble a critical mass of invitees to satisfy Dutch's desire for "a BIIIIIIIIG party!"
Also, we're lonely.
3) Dutch's new daycare is fantastic. The only problem with it is the part-timeness of it. Otherwise, it's like (nearly) any parent's fantasy of a daycare. Bright, cheerful, colorful, stocked with books and the fixings for interesting activities, staffed by loving teachers with lots of student teacher support. Cook says it smelled like gingerbread when he walked in Friday morning, and he really wanted to spend the day there himself. The part-time kids (second-class citizens that they are) are removed from the classroom at lunch time and taken from the library to await their parents. The LIBRARY! Which is stocked with books and a dollhouse and comfy spots for reading! The teachers say Dutch is doing great, and she seems perfectly happy to be there when she's there - she never cries when we leave, and she never wants to leave in the afternoon. (She's the oldest kid in the class, and substantially more verbal than the rest of them, but she likes being in charge.) Overall, though, she's definitely sad about leaving behind her friends, and cranky about the change. I expect she'll settle in fairly quickly, and then we intend to keep her there until kindergarten (three long years away!), but she's had a lot of transition for one little introvert.
There are all kinds of things I haven't been writing about.
1) If all goes well, I'll get a new boss sometime in the next week or two, and things will get less hectic.
2) We're trying to jumpstart our social life, particularly the kids-and-parents part of it, partially because we're going to need playdates and babysitting swapping, with Dutch home in the afternoons, and partially because Dutch's birthday is coming up (this is NOT a sneaky bid for presents, by the way - that kid has more stuff than you'd think any non-home-owner would need) and we realize we don't have any invitee prospects to a kid-based party. So we're quickly reviving some friendships from last winter's Indoor Park adventures, in the hopes of being able to assemble a critical mass of invitees to satisfy Dutch's desire for "a BIIIIIIIIG party!"
Also, we're lonely.
3) Dutch's new daycare is fantastic. The only problem with it is the part-timeness of it. Otherwise, it's like (nearly) any parent's fantasy of a daycare. Bright, cheerful, colorful, stocked with books and the fixings for interesting activities, staffed by loving teachers with lots of student teacher support. Cook says it smelled like gingerbread when he walked in Friday morning, and he really wanted to spend the day there himself. The part-time kids (second-class citizens that they are) are removed from the classroom at lunch time and taken from the library to await their parents. The LIBRARY! Which is stocked with books and a dollhouse and comfy spots for reading! The teachers say Dutch is doing great, and she seems perfectly happy to be there when she's there - she never cries when we leave, and she never wants to leave in the afternoon. (She's the oldest kid in the class, and substantially more verbal than the rest of them, but she likes being in charge.) Overall, though, she's definitely sad about leaving behind her friends, and cranky about the change. I expect she'll settle in fairly quickly, and then we intend to keep her there until kindergarten (three long years away!), but she's had a lot of transition for one little introvert.
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