Lucy’s Blog

I got many emails from friends giving me moral support as I started work full time this week. They were much appreciated! I wanted to capture something I wrote to Kim as I think it sums up my feelings nicely:

…This week has been going better than expected. I decided that since I have to work (there’s no option for me not to) that I should just be okay with this. If I’m miserable, all it does is make me miserable because there’s nothing I can do about it. Lucy is adjusting very well to daycare-we’ve had some kinks to work out with bottles and such but I am really happy with her daycare. They are very loving with her and she gets a lot of really good playtime. They actually have an “Activity Plan” for the day where I know she’s doing certain things. She’s smiley and happy when I drop her off and when we pick her up and smiley at home. I figure she wouldn’t be so happy if they were horrible to her, ya know? They also take all my calls with a smile and let me know how she’s doing. I call once a day to check in on her. Work has also been pretty great. Everybody here is so supportive and I work with really nice people. You can’t ask for anything more-especially when you see so many people getting laid off!

I won’t lie, I do miss her and the fact that they get the majority of her “good” (awake) hours does suck but it’s not the end of the world. I’m working really hard on making our time together really quality. In the morning I play with her and then when I get ready I sit her in her bouncy chair and talk with her and make her laugh (she makes me laugh too 😉 ). At night, we don’t eat dinner until she goes to bed so that we can play with her, give her her bath, read to her and put her to bed. No tv, no computer, no video games, no Mommy in the kitchen cooking. It’s just Mommy, Daddy, and Lucy time…

Today was our first weekend day after a full week of work-it was great to spend so much time with Lucy. She’s feeling a bit under the weather with a cough-which she got from the Doctor’s office NOT from daycare-although I’m sure daycare didn’t help matters. At daycare, she’s learned to really like tummy time-I don’t know how they did it but she likes it now. She can also put her self to sleep, which she showed us today:

Here she is with Miss Azar after her first day of daycare-she was really tired and you can tell in this picture:

Miss Azar and Miss Maria LOVE Lucy and that’s so nice to see. They are really great people.

Here is Daddy and Lucy hanging out one night after “school”:

The family last weekend-this picture is up on the wall at “school” so that Lucy can see us anytime she wants:

And lastly, our adorable little girl: