Isabella's First Day at Daycare

We started taking Isabella to daycare for a few hours this week in order to start her getting used to it before I go back to work (3/17). She seems to be doing okay there. The first day she didn't really want to eat, which we've never seen before, but the next day she ate fine. There are 13 babies in Isabella's room, most are under 1 year. There are only two other little girls, all the rest are boys! Today Jeff called me and said the daycare called him to tell him that Isabella had bitten off another kid's arm and we had to go get her. As ridiculous as that story is, my heart still skipped a beat when he told me that, like something was wrong. I should know better than to believe anything that comes out of Jeff's mouth.

Even though it was tough that first day to leave Isabella with complete strangers, it is nice to have a few hours to myself during the day, I'm considering it my mini-vacation before I go back to work. I'm very excited to try to get a few projects done that I seriously thought I'd have time to do during most of my maternity leave. I must have had it in my head pre-Isabella that she'd take these 3 hour naps during the day and I would work on the baby book, blog, organize photos, organize my closet, etc. I wasn't aware that when she took these naps it would be mostly in my arms or that she would wake up 10 minutes into them and I would spend the next hours calming her down. I mistakenly thought she'd spend time in her bouncy seat or swing and I'd work on thank you notes or something like that. Nope. Before she hit 2 months, she only wanted to be held. So, I'm really looking forward to getting a few things done while she is out of the house. Maybe I'll even have time to compose a few blog entries I've been thinking about such as "Why 'Sleeping When the Baby Sleeps' is Complete BS".

Here is Isabella on her first day to daycare. Yes, she looks scared, she may have been picking up on some of my nervousness.