Day three of daycare today. We are all on
the road to health, though not quite there yet. Good enough to
return to work and daycare though. Lex wasn’t very interested
in going back and requested I stay with him for a little while.
I agreed and ended up spending 20 minutes with him on my lap in
tears. I tried distraction, showed him the schedule on the
wall, tried to have him talk to another new girl (not crying),
but nothing worked. Eventually he got off my lap and ran to the
window. The teacher asked what he was doing and he said, “I’m
going to wave goodbye to mommy.” (something he does when Alan
goes to work in the morning) I took that as my cue to leave,
and cried myself to work.

When I picked
them up they both ran to me and cried, but it was more of a
tired cry and short lived. Within a few minutes Lex was talking
to me and showing me a coloring page he made. The teacher said
he did MUCH better today and only cried for a few minutes. He
took a good nap and even played a bit with the other kids. She
said that showing him the schedule was a good idea because he
ran back to it many times during the day and they discussed the
time (the schedule is posted just under a clock), the current
activity, and what was coming next. She thought that was very
helpful. He is a schedule kind of guy :)

When I got him out of the car I noticed a smiley face
sticker on his back. I asked why he had a sticker and he said,
“I earned it because I was the only child who did as the
teacher asked.” I asked what exactly he did, but he couldn’t
remember. A sticker for cooperation is good news to
me!