The Grays

Daycare Penguin Art

Lilly has been going to daycare full time on Tuesdays for a few weeks now and is responding really well to her experience there. Dropping her off is difficult because she always cries but Peg assures me that she stops crying the second I am out of site. Her caretakers call her a ‘chatterbox’ and say that she talks in gibberish non-stop throughout the day. This is great to know because Lilly is very talkative around Bill and I but gets quiet around her friends and most other people, so she must feel really comfortable there!

The second Lilly sees me when I pick her up she starts crying. It’s actually kind of funny because I can hear her start when I walk past the window. She calms down quickly but I get quite the guilt trip. Lilly is as happy as can be for about an hour after she’s picked up and then she pretty much slowly melts down. Every Tuesday she goes to bed at least 45 minutes early and I am thankful for that because she is more work than she is at any other point during the week!

I’ve noticed in our various classes that she is much less tentative to play with the other students and especially to interact with the moms. I definitely attribute this to her experience in daycare and am so thankful that we can provide her with this opportunity yet still have me stay at home with her for the rest of the week.