Daycare

Juliet's first day of daycare was yesterday and it went really well.  I dropped her off at about 8:45am and stayed with her about 20 minutes before leaving.  She didn't cry or cling to me at all - she was quite happy to go to one of the daycare workers and start playing with their toys.  After I left, the workers took her and the other babies for a walk in the strollers for about an hour, then I picked Juliet up soon after they got back.  She was really only there about an hour and a half, but there were no tears and she seemed to be genuinely happy there.  What a relief!


Right after we arrived, Juliet sat with one of the teachers and played happily.


As had I prepared to take her there in the morning, I wondered whether I should put on mascara as I thought it would likely end up all down my face as I cried my way home.  But as it turns out, she did so well there that I didn't end up being sad at all when I left her - instead, I was proud.

One of the comments from the daycare workers was that Juliet was such a happy girl.  Apparently, when they took the babies for a walk, they put Juliet in the coveted position of the front of the stroller, and passersby would comment on how smiley and happy our little Juliet was.  This made me feel good about her being there.

Today was Juliet's second day of daycare and it also went well.  She was there for much longer today - from about 9am to close to 2pm.  She did really well again, although the daycare workers had trouble getting her to nap - she refused to go to sleep in her designated crib.  That's totally my fault, though, as I am still nursing her to sleep for most of her naps (and the other naps are either in the car or on walks).  I don't think she cried while she was there, which is totally amazing to me given how much she hated the caregivers at my mom group and would cry almost the whole time she was in their care.  Turns out she doesn't have stranger danger after all - she just hates certain strangers!

The daycare creates reports every day where parents can see how their child did that day and in today's report, they wrote, "Great second transition day! We are so happy to have Juliet and your family in our class.".  Awww...so nice!

After picking Juliet up from daycare today, I brought her home and she had a playdate with my friend and colleague, Erica and her son, Ben.  Juliet is kind of grabby but luckily Ben is grabby, too, so they enjoyed poking each others' faces.  In between all the grabbing, they both took a moment to enjoy some Mum Mums.

Mmmmm...these crackers have no flavour but they are fun to crunch on.

Juliet had another visitor this evening as grandma came by because she was viewing a condo nearby.  Turns out she liked it so much that she ended up putting in an offer, so we'll keep our fingers crossed that it will work out.  I try not to get my hopes up too much with real estate transactions, though, as most of you know that it took me and Leo two years to find a house and we had many failed attempts before we were eventually successful.

Grandma brought some silly glasses for Juliet to try on.  The funny thing is that there's a sticker on the glasses that says "100% UV protection".  Like anyone's going to wear these things for longer than about 2 minutes as a joke.