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I [heart] Davids · Daycare Begins

Daycare Begins

June 25, 2008 in Henry by JeniQ | 2 comments

Henry started daycare this week (henceforth called “school” to make it sound more important).
Here he is in his first-day-of-school outfit.
Ready for school!

It was harder to leave him there than I thought it would be. There was more than one crying baby in the room. Henry was looking around like, “What’s with all the noise?” So was I, frankly. Unlike before I had the baby, however, I understood that most of those babies were crying for a need (hunger, sleep, changing, etc.) and I realized those teachers are all there to meet those needs as quickly as possible. They seemed to be doing a good job of staying focused and on task.

I was able to check on him via in-room video cameras during the day. They’re very low resolution but if you know what he’s wearing, you can spot him.

He’s next to the red thing on the floor
He’s on the yellow semi-circle

He’s in the middle crib on the left
He’s in the middle crib on the left

I was debating trying to obscure the images of the adults and the other children in this room, but I thought, why bother? You can’t see anything anyway! If you are immediate family and you were excited about getting access to the video cameras, I’d get less excited about it. It’s [obviously] hard to see and the technology takes a little fiddling with to get it to work.

All in all, I’m happy that he’s in daycare. I think it’s good for him in more than one way. He learns how to be cared for by new people, he gets socialization, he gets exposed to germs, etc. It was a little tough starting this week, but now that the week is halfway over, I’m feeling more comfortable and confident.

  1. Cristin’s avatar

    Cristin on June 25, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    He’s so cute all dressed up, with his preppy hairdo, and flexing his toes getting ready to take notes with them all day in school;)

    The camera idea is fab. It’s right up your alley and has be a great comfort. It’s like a different take on watching your baby birds:)