Day care, part time

When we first started taking Autumn to day care, it made us sad. She was going four days a week, and honestly, we were worried that we would miss things. I think every parent worries about day care. About how their little one becomes more attached to the day care provider and less to us. It's a fear that is unwarranted. As Autumn's parents, we'll always have a head start on a bond that other people will never have. But that doesn't mean we didn't have the fear. Take a look: this is what we dropped off.


Fast forward to today. Rhona is now home most days. She's working on Tuesday and Thursday doing her internship for her Masters degree, so Autumn goes to day care now only Tuesday and Thursday. And sometimes not even for the full day.

So when she went this morning, she hadn't been to day care since Thursday. And in the last 4 days, she's really started walking like crazy. She's not quite standing on her own, but she's really close. She'll grab anything, Lucy, my leg, a wall, and help herself up in order to walk. This whole walking a lot thing was new to the woman there, at day care. She hadn't seen that at day care. So when I left her this morning, I didn't feel like we were missing her development. I felt that the people at day care were missing it. And that felt good.