Daycare

Today is our 4th day in daycare. So far, okay. Initially the boys were very excited about there classroom, lots of toys, friends, creative things to do that mommy probably would not do at home (finger painting, markers, etc...)and so on. Janie had a harder time the first day. I could tell that she was feeling anxious about not knowing anyone. She had tears, I had tears and then I left.

The update four days later is that Janie is doing great. Despite the getting up in the morning, she is doing awesome.

The boys are both doing fine. Apparently Kyle has been very sensitive in the morning and a bit whiney. Yesterday and today he stood at the door screaming when Mike dropped him off. Owen is whining some but overall pretty content. This is funny because typically Kyle is the clown and happy most of the time and Owen is the serious, temperamental one. The challenge here - SLEEP! These boys have gone from sleeping 8:00pm-6:30am with 2-2hr naps a day to 7:15pm-6:00am with 1-1hr nap a day. I am not sure that they are ready to go down to one nap. I know that this transition usually happens at 12months but maybe not for my crazy boys. The unfortunate part is that the time we have together now is not as pleasant because they are spent.

The bright side - I love Hearts and Hands! It is a Christian based childcare/preschool. Janie went to preschool there and we have always been happy. A lot of the same people are working there that were there when we left over a year ago. It is the perfect balance between play, education and Christian education.

So, we will continue to transition and look forward to our nanny coming back in hopefully 5 weeks!