This has been such a busy week. I feel bad that this is my first and perhaps only post for the week and it is going to be so short. The daycare transition went really well this week. W no longer cries when I drop him off and is content when he is picked up. He always brings a toy over to the gate to play with and to take home. It is such a huge weight off my shoulders that he is happy where he is. The other thing I LOVE is the teacher who is with him in the afternoons is ALWAYS on the floor playing with the kids and singing. It's so cute. I can hear her before I even open the door to the daycare wing!
This weekend W and I are leaving my hubby at home and going to visit family for the weekend, then I have to work on Sunday so we will not be back until Monday. Have a great weekend everyone!
Friday, March 22, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Daycare - Day 2 - The Snack Dilema
Today is W's second day in daycare. Yesterday he did excellent until I went to play with him at lunch time. Then he freaked out. Then last night he woke up at 3am and was inconsolable until I moved him into bed with me. I'm sure it didn't help that we had no 'together' time since I didn't see him until 7:30 when I picked him up from my friend's house. Then as soon as we got home it was bedtime.
When I dropped W off today he FREAKED out. He was screaming and had these big tears in his eyes. I felt awful. I wanted to run over and pick him up and hug him, but I knew that would just be delaying the inevitable.
One of the things I'm finding tough with our daycare is that the snacks they provide. They are prepackaged processed crap like cheeseballs. ICK! Another issues we have is W eats breakfast at about 7:45am and snack time is between 8:30 and 8:45am so I need to pack something that is not too heavy but will help hold him over until lunch at 11:30. His afternoon snack is between 3 and 3:30 so I need to pack something heavier or else he is ravenous when I pick him up. Here's a list of the foods I have come up with:
Morning Snacks:
Edamame
Cucubmbers
Green / Red Peppers
Cherry Tomatoes
Afternoon Snacks (I choose two of the following)
Apples
Pears
Grapes
Banana
String Cheese
Organic Animal Cookies
Homemade Oatmeal Cookies
Wholewheat Goldfish
Cheerios
Chick Peas
Dried Fruit
And because every post is better with a picture, here are a few pictures what he takes to daycare:
AM Snack
Edamame
Lunch
Mesquite Steak
Cheesy Quinoa Broccoli Bite
Red Peppers
Grapes
PM Snack
String Cheese
Apples
Just to make it easy on everyone I labeled everything with a dry erase marker.
When I dropped W off today he FREAKED out. He was screaming and had these big tears in his eyes. I felt awful. I wanted to run over and pick him up and hug him, but I knew that would just be delaying the inevitable.
One of the things I'm finding tough with our daycare is that the snacks they provide. They are prepackaged processed crap like cheeseballs. ICK! Another issues we have is W eats breakfast at about 7:45am and snack time is between 8:30 and 8:45am so I need to pack something that is not too heavy but will help hold him over until lunch at 11:30. His afternoon snack is between 3 and 3:30 so I need to pack something heavier or else he is ravenous when I pick him up. Here's a list of the foods I have come up with:
Morning Snacks:
Edamame
Cucubmbers
Green / Red Peppers
Cherry Tomatoes
Afternoon Snacks (I choose two of the following)
Apples
Pears
Grapes
Banana
String Cheese
Organic Animal Cookies
Homemade Oatmeal Cookies
Wholewheat Goldfish
Cheerios
Chick Peas
Dried Fruit
And because every post is better with a picture, here are a few pictures what he takes to daycare:
Edamame
Lunch
Mesquite Steak
Cheesy Quinoa Broccoli Bite
Red Peppers
Grapes
PM Snack
String Cheese
Apples
Just to make it easy on everyone I labeled everything with a dry erase marker.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Daycare
For the last year we have been blessed to have a friend who has watched W in her home. It was the best situation we could ask for. I felt so comfortable leaving him there and she even worked around my crazy and long work schedule.
Last month she had a job offer and decided to take it and we enrolled him in daycare a few blocks from my office. They didn't have any immediate openings so a friend of my friend (a former preschool teacher) offered to watch W until we could transition him (see my last blog entry for all the details). Long story short today was W's first day at the new daycare. It broke my heart to leave him somewhere new and unfamiliar all alone. I wanted to scoop him up and take him with me. When I left he was perfectly fine, but looked at me with these big puppy dog eyes as if he were to say "Wait mom! Where are you going? You forgot me!", but he didn't cry.
At lunch time I went over to visit him, snuggle, and play. We had a good 20 minutes of playtime before I had to go back to work. This time when I left him he started screaming. He totally broke my heart. My poor little guy. I know all this is for the best and it is good that he is being socialized, but it still hurts to know that if he falls and gets a boo-boo I won't be there to kiss it better. I hate knowing that they probably won't pick up on his baby signing that I taught him. They will not know that when he pats his belly he is really saying "Please" and when he says "der" it means he doesn't know the name for something, but wants it.
I think the worst part is I work until 7:30 on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday I have to be at work by 7:30am and I have an appointment right after work so his former nanny will be picking him up those days. I'm going to feel totally disconnected from my little guy those days.
Deep breathes!
Last month she had a job offer and decided to take it and we enrolled him in daycare a few blocks from my office. They didn't have any immediate openings so a friend of my friend (a former preschool teacher) offered to watch W until we could transition him (see my last blog entry for all the details). Long story short today was W's first day at the new daycare. It broke my heart to leave him somewhere new and unfamiliar all alone. I wanted to scoop him up and take him with me. When I left he was perfectly fine, but looked at me with these big puppy dog eyes as if he were to say "Wait mom! Where are you going? You forgot me!", but he didn't cry.
At lunch time I went over to visit him, snuggle, and play. We had a good 20 minutes of playtime before I had to go back to work. This time when I left him he started screaming. He totally broke my heart. My poor little guy. I know all this is for the best and it is good that he is being socialized, but it still hurts to know that if he falls and gets a boo-boo I won't be there to kiss it better. I hate knowing that they probably won't pick up on his baby signing that I taught him. They will not know that when he pats his belly he is really saying "Please" and when he says "der" it means he doesn't know the name for something, but wants it.
I think the worst part is I work until 7:30 on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday I have to be at work by 7:30am and I have an appointment right after work so his former nanny will be picking him up those days. I'm going to feel totally disconnected from my little guy those days.
Deep breathes!
Monday, March 4, 2013
True Working Mom Struggles
What do you do when your babysitter does not show up and you HAVE to be at work? It is a question no working mom wants to face. On Friday I had to deal with just that. W's nanny got a new job and she started last Monday. Our plan was for her friend to watch W at her house (she has a playroom all setup for him). She started Monday and all was going well until Friday when she didn't show up. She didn't call, didn't text and she wasn't answering her phone either.
I ended up taking W with me to work for a few hours. He had to come to a meeting with me (where I chased him around the office). Then we hopped in my car to go to my office when I scraped my door when I cut a turn too sharp coming out of the parking garage. At that point I just lost it and started bawling in my car. I called my mom crying. I couldn't take much more. We arrived at my office and he was SO well behaved. I ended up working a half day before I took him in for a doctor's appointment.
This week, my mom, who lives three hours away, drove out to watch W all week and help us save in daycare costs and next week he will start at a daycare. I'm really not looking forward to sending him. His original nanny was so great with him and overall awesome. We were so blessed to have her watch him for more than the first year of his life. I know having him in daycare will only help him to be better socialized, but we are going to miss her!
I ended up taking W with me to work for a few hours. He had to come to a meeting with me (where I chased him around the office). Then we hopped in my car to go to my office when I scraped my door when I cut a turn too sharp coming out of the parking garage. At that point I just lost it and started bawling in my car. I called my mom crying. I couldn't take much more. We arrived at my office and he was SO well behaved. I ended up working a half day before I took him in for a doctor's appointment.
This week, my mom, who lives three hours away, drove out to watch W all week and help us save in daycare costs and next week he will start at a daycare. I'm really not looking forward to sending him. His original nanny was so great with him and overall awesome. We were so blessed to have her watch him for more than the first year of his life. I know having him in daycare will only help him to be better socialized, but we are going to miss her!
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