This week

So, Loodles started daycare this week and it started off okay, but by week's end, she was screaming bloody murder the minute we pulled in the parking lot. Leaving your baby with strangers is an incredibly unnatural thing to do, so its taken every ounce of strength to not call in sick to work every single day this week. For the most part, Lily seems to be enjoying her days at school. She is eating, napping, and seemingly having fun with the other little monsters. She knows all of her classmates names and has spent an inordinate amount of time each day telling them goodbye ("Goodbye Jennifer! Goodbye Chelsea!" etc). Her teachers are impressed with her language skills and the fact that she knows most of her letters, colors, animals, objects, and can count to 10 in 3 different languages. They also like to do her hair and I love picking up Lily in the afternoons when she has her little pigtails in -- so cute!

I have tried to convince Leslie to uproot her family and move to the West Side to be near me so she can watch Lily, but no avail. I do have another daycare in mind, that is $5 more a week and is also closer to my work, so we are thinking about switching. I just get a better "mommy vibe" from daycare #2, so we shall see.

So, because of the raging cutness of our Christmas pics, I dressed Lily up in her soft-white-fluffy outfit the other night. She could not have been more cute and cuddly!

Trying to escape the changing table

Playing with her new favorite toy -- the doggie on the back of the sled wags his tail and the thing plays that song "C'mon its lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you"

By the way, those are brown furry boots, but the pic is so dark, it looks like her legs got cut off!

I cannot wait to pack this thing up in that attic, because I am tired of hearing it already. She will sit there and push the stinkin' button 100 times in a row.

Another new favorite activity is handing us the Leapfrog letters off the fridge for us to identify them. She handed me an "M" the other day and she gave Devin a "D". We said "M is for ___" and she said "Mama!" and then we said "D is for ____" and she said "Daddy!". We're not sure if this is a coincidence or not, but it was pretty darn cute either way!

So there ya have it, our week in a nutshell. I am still liking my job, but still have my eyes peeled for a part time position. I just feel like it would be better if I was home with Lily more. We will just have to wait and see what God has in store for us, I guess.