Make new friends

First day!

On the way to his first day of daycare.

Mommy went back to work last month, so we enrolled Junior into daycare a few weeks before her start date.  The first day went pretty smoothly.  The second day was anything but smooth.  He realized that he was going away for the whole day, and he did not like that idea.  The first 2 days he refused to take a nap.  The third day we let him go with his blanket, so he was able to take a nap without too much trouble.  Eventually after about a week or so, he decided he liked going to daycare.  After he got home in the afternoon though, he seemed very cranky.  We finally realized that he was just really hungry.  The daycare says he eats all his food, but when they ask him if he wants more, he always says no.   They didn't realize that he eats as much as an adult.  He probably doesn't ask for seconds, because he wants to hurry up and go play.  Now we try to feed him a snack as soon as he gets home, and that seems to help calm the cranky monster.

More yogurt please.

Every once in a while he will come back with some art project that he made.  One of the first ones he brought back was a little pumpkin drawing that he colored in.  His daycare is a Spanish immersion daycare, so he learned that the drawing is a 'calabaza'.  Now his favorite Spanish word is 'calabaza'.  

"Arr!"

If you ask him what he did at daycare, no matter what he'll say, "Make new friends."