Today was our best day yet! Woohoo! We
started talking about daycare yesterday and Lex said he would
be happy to go. At first he said he would be happy and act
sweet if I stayed with him for a little while, and I said that
I would help him take off his shoes, hang up his sweatshirt and
hat, and wash his hands (the first thing they do at daycare),
but then I’d have to go to work. After awhile he decided that
he wanted to act sweet for the teacher even if I didn’t stay
with him for awhile :) That was nice. This morning he was sweet
and didn’t fuss or argue. When we dropped him off he got a
little teary eyed and ran to the window to watch us leave, but
at pick-up the teacher said he did awesome! No crying, no
fussing, just nice behavior. Yay!! When we got there at the end
of the day they both ran to me, but neither cried :)

In other big news, Eve went all day in
underwear yesterday. All on her own choice. I put a diaper on
her at naptime, and otherwise no accidents. Today she asked for
underwear again, so we sent her to daycare in underwear. They
said she did very good, with only one accident that the teacher
actually took responsibility for :) In as much as you can take
responsibility for such a thing. Apparently the teacher we left
Eve with forgot to tell her teacher that she was in underwear
(Eve’s teacher came in shortly after we left). So her teacher
didn’t know and didn’t ask if she needed the potty, until a
little too late. They changed her and put her back in underwear
and no more accidents. I don’t want to get too excited, but
it’s great that she’s interested again!

Today was the first day that really felt right, in respect
to this whole work/daycare thing. The morning went well, I
spent the day at work talking to people and collaborating on a
project and using my brain. The past two weeks have been
podcast editing with headphones on the whole time, fairly
isolating and mindless, but that project is over and today I
started a new, more interesting one. Then we picked the kids up
and they were happy, we played this evening and had bagels for
dinner (Lex’s choice, of course) and bedtime was relatively
smooth. Today felt right.

I haven’t
been taking many pictures lately, but here is a little video of
Eve this morning in a new outfit. It’s adorable and she loves
it!

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