Aug 27 2009
First Day at Day Care
Today was Jonah’s first day ever at day care. When I say day care what I really mean is Leah’s house. Leah’s mom is a former nanny, now SAHM who was willing to watch Jonah at their house, one day a week. Our nanny, Kate, still comes here 4 days a week but she’s not available on Thursdays. This summer Nana, Papa and Grandpa took turns coming over to play with Jonah on Thursdays but now that Nana has to go back to school it was time to find a permanent solution. I wanted to find a place for Jonah to go one day where he could be around another kid or two. I wanted him to go there so he will get used to being in another environment, not always at his home with his toys.
I was very happy to find Leah’s mom. Leah is only 18 months but already can identify letters by pointing to them and saying the name of the letter. I was impressed by that alone and her references were outstanding. We went to play at Leah’s house a couple of times before today so that Jonah could get use to it there. Leah has a ton of toys so he jumped right in.
Today I woke him up early and got him dressed and ready to head out the door with Daddy on his way to work at 6:30. At first Jonah just sort of lay his bed looking at me like, “what is going on?” since I never wake him up in the morning. We’d been talking about Leah’s house all week though so once I said that and mentioned her toys he was up.
Chris dropped him off and Jonah went straight for Leah’s singing Elmo. Leah was still asleep but they had breakfast together and played all day. He even napped there no problem. They played with toys, stickers, made daddy a b-day card and played in the sandbox. Overall he did great for his 1st full day away. Pre-school here we come!
He did fall asleep for a bit in the car ride home though so I know he was worn out. He must have been playing all day because it worked up an appetite! For dinner tonight he had 1 full ear of corn, green beans, mac & cheese and best of all “happy, happy” birthday cake that I made for Chris today. Jonah didn’t seem to like the cake when it was his birthday but he scarfed this one down no problem and asked for more. So far he’s the only one that’s eaten any.
It’s just past 8 and he’s in bed now. I’m happy it went so well. I had the house all to myself today, it was strange and nice.
