Transitions

This week, we learned that Kate will no longer be able to take Mia while Brian and I are at work. When I first went back to the office, Mia was a mere 7 weeks old. Now, she's a strong and active 3 month old, and she's starting to need more attention and activity. She doesn't like to just sit in her chair or lay in her crib between her naps. She likes to be held, walked around, airplaned and played with.

Now that she's growing out of the infant stage, I am much more comfortable putting her in a more traditional daycare setting, but we're not quite ready for the pre-school like environment (and pricetag) of a big daycare. So, we're looking into a licensed, in-home daycare. Tonight, we are visiting one that is just north of our apartment, so just slightly out of the way for me to get to work. Tomorrow, we'll visit another more conveniently located in-home daycare. The pricing is about the same as we were paying Kate, but they are requiring us to be consistent with our schedules. Since we can't commit to the same 3 days every week, we are only comfortable committing to 2. We'll do something like Mondays and Thursdays, or Mondays and Fridays, since those are the days that Brian gets off the least often. Brian will keep her on his day off, and that leaves 2 take your daughter to work days for me.

I want us to take our time making a decision, but we would like to have something set up by September 12th. I have to be in court on September 16th, and would rather not take her to work to be watched by my co-workers, who have their own work to do (although I am sure they would be happy to pass the baby between them.).

In ancitipation of Mia's new 2-days a week work schedule, I spent a good chunk of my morning setting up her "new room". I brought the pack-n-play into my office, set up the mobile, and the changing station. Having it here has already made a huge difference. She naps much more easily when she's not in her bouncy chair, and I don't have to clear off my desk every time she needs to be changed. We were even able to do tummy time, since the crib surface is hard and stable enough. I'm really glad with the set up, and since I don't see any clients in my office, this shouldn't cause too many problems. I even put on the lullaby pandora station on my laptop!