Category: Working Mama

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Sunshine!

Today the sun came out after 2 days of rain. It was a welcome relief for all involved. M got to play outside, my students had reccess and the flower beds have a chance to dry out a little bit.

Saturday night we went to a CWA (union) picinic–it was raining, so we ate our food, looked at the clown and left. Next year, if the weather is nice, I think that M will have a ball. The park was really nice, and there was a set up for a few small carnival games (rained out) and a moonwalk (rained out). There was a DJ, and a beer truck. Again, if it hadn’t been 60 degrees and raining, I think we REALLy would have had a good time!

M wasn’t phased by the clown at all–L says this is her “best WTF expression”. The clown was very nice, and very calm around M, which I appreciated.

We spent Sunday in the living room, which by the end of the day was feeling really small! I think we were all happy for a change of scenary today.

Due to a staffing issue, I worked til after 3 today, so M had her longest day ever at Rainbow. She did just great–slept for her typical hour, had afternoon snack, and was playing happily when I picked her up. Of course, she promptly fell asleep, and has been down for almost 2 hours. It’s now 5:30pm. My question is, is she down for the night?? Will she get up? How long will she stay up for? She wore herself out at Relay and slept for 13 hours that night. If she sleeps 13 hours straight, that means she’ll wake up at 5am. Only about 1 hour earlier than usual. Why am I speculating? Why am I pretending I have ANY control over this whatsoever?!?!

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the downsides….

Ok, so last week I chronicled how well the Babe was adjusting, and it’s true, she really is. But there are a few things that I’m beginning to notice/realize that are the downside to my little utopian plan:

a)at this point, the Babe is only awake for about 30 minutes before I drop her off in the morning. 15 of those minutes are spent taking a bottle, changing a diaper, dressing and getting to Rainbow. That leaves 15 minutes of other interactions. Yesterday while she didn’t cry when I left her, she gave me a look, as if to say, “Um, Mom, where are you going?? We’ve hardly said hello today!”

b)at this point, when I bring her home she takes a big long nap. On one hand, it’s nice. On the other hand, I want to spend time with her!! When she wakes up we’ll have 3-4 hours before she goes down for the night.

c) She does things without me!! 🙁 Today “McGruff”, you know, the crime dog came to the center. She sat on her teacher’s lap and watched the whole thing. Granted, we just saw “the Very Hungry Caterpillar” together about 2 weeks ago, but she hadn’t met McGruff yet!!!

But overall, things are really just fine. Today when I picked her up, Ms. L mentioned that a few minutes prior she said something to the effect of, “Mommy will be here to pick you up soon”, and that she stopped what she was doing and looked around. I get the absolute best hugs and snuggles when I pick her up in the afternoon.

Other “big girl” things going on: If I’m talking about her in front of her, and say her name, she’ll stop and look at me. She’s coming to her highchair when she’s hungry, and to the edge of the tub when she’s done with her bath. She’s really enjoying all of our homemade juice–when she sees me rev up the juicer she does her “oh I’m so happy, please keep it coming” sign (the only one she really does yet) and sucks down apple/ginger/carrot water like nobody’s business.

Can she really be 10 months old already????

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Day 3

I promise, I’ll stop soon. But it’s all going so well, I can’t stop gushing. Turns out, there wasn’t a new student today. So it’s still just the Babe and her caretaker, Ms. L. Works for me!

There was no drama this morning at drop-off—you know, it won’t happen until I’m not expecting it. Today she played shy for 5 seconds, then went right to Ms. L. When I told L, he said, “So she likes Ms.L more than us, huh?” Yup, that must be it! She spent most of her day with the “big kids”, and apparently loved every minute of it, and napped again on a cot–but only for 30minutes. Sooner or later, I know, she’ll relax enough to take a real nap.

OTHER ITEMS OF NOTE

Next weekend is Relay For Life!! Our team has been slow to start–so now it’s time to fundraise with gusto! Please click on the link and consider making a donation to the American Cancer Society. Thank you!!!

The weather has gotten hot and humid today–secretly,the staff at school is hoping it will rain on our picnic tonight. Isn’t that horrible?? It’s just that most of the school (ok, all but 21 of my students) are done tomorrow, which means, of course, they were all really done about 2 days ago. And so it’s just that can-it-please-be-summer feeling that’s taken over the school. Thankfully, when you don’t start working til March, you don’t really feel that way. Which is good, because we don’t get a break until the week of July 4th!