Back to school!

Today is Elle's 1st day back to school after the holiday break. I was worried that the daycare drop off would not go well but surprisingly, it did! Daddy Jarbs said, she did not cry or anything and even went to her teacher with open arms! lol. For the month of December, she's been in "training" at the toddler room but starting today, she's officially a member of the big kids class!  When I picked her up later in the day, her teachers said she was good all day and didn't cry or anything! Our baby is now a big girl :(.

 Of course, Mommy Jarbs had to spy on her on the webcam :).

Day care webcam photos

When I arrive at work every morning, the first thing I do is log on to my computer, check my work email and log on the to the day care webcam :-). I check it intermittently throughout the day. I LOVE that even when I am away, I can still shee what she's doing all the day.

Elle's teacher told me that since she has started going to day care every day (as oppose to 2x a week the previous months), things had gotten way better. She is always happy, rarely cries now and plays A LOT. However, now there is one issue. She does not nap as good as she did before! She used to have 3 naps a day which lasts anywhere from 1-2.5 hrs. Well over the past 2 weeks, she has dropped the third nap and now napping shorter! Yesterday, she napped 2x for a total of 50 mins throughout the day!!! Her teacher said she does not want to nap and just wants to play all.the.time! lol. It's as if she does not want to nap because she's worried she'll miss out on the fun things at day care. I think she got this trait from Daddy Jarbs :-P. I love that she's enjoying playing at day care and developing her social skills but the downside to this is by the time I pick her up, she's so tired! She falls asleep on our ride home and does not wake up until 8 pm which is supposedly her bed time. As it is, we already have less time with her during the week but now since she's asleep by the time we get home, I miss the 1.5 hour awake time that she has where both her and I play :(. At home during weekends though she still naps really well. I guess she has a lot of distractions at day care. The swaddling at day care may be an issue too. They still swaddle ALL the babies during naps. As you remember, we have stopped swaddling her at home so she can roll over to her tummy which is her favorite position when she sleeps. I'll have to talk to her teacher and perhaps make an exception and not swaddle her during nap time and see it it will make a difference

Below are some day care webcam snap shots I took over the week.

The teacher told me Elle will contently sit on the bouncy chair and watch the older kids play. Sometimes the older kids will come up to her and she would smile at them :-).  

She's on the tummy time corner and was suppose to do tummy time but since she can now roll over, look what she's doing. She's on her back and looking at herself in the mirror! lol

A couple of minutes after, I checked the webcam again and now she's playing with the tummy time pillow! lol

Now that she can sit up unassisted, the teachers have her sit on the mat and play with all the older kids. The teacher said she loves it. Aww..look how our baby has grown.

Elle goes to "school" 5 days a week...

It has been a little over a couple of months since I have gone back to work. Since then Eleiana has been going to day care two days a week. We wanted to slowly transition and ease her way in at day care. Well, tomorrow, Elle turns 6 months old and starting today, she officially goes to "school" (as we call it) five days a week. She has grown and developed a lot since she first started going to day care. We would like to believe that going to day care has helped a lot in her development. Daddy Jarbs and I feel that she is now ready to go there every day. We are happy with our day care providers and feel that Elle is well taken cared of while she is there. She is always happy whenever I pick her up in the afternoon and that makes Mommy Jarbs happy as well. When she first started going to day care, she can barely last one minute during tummy time but now, when you put her down, she immediately rolls over to her tummy, hangs out and plays for a few minutes. Now that she is bigger, she gets to play on the exersaucer like the older babies. If you remember, a couple of months ago, we planned on buying her one but she did not care for it too much.  



Here is a photo taken this morning from the day care webcam.

Elle is the baby in the middle, having a ball on the exesaucer. 



Stalking Elle @ Day care:-)

I LOVE the webcam at Elle's day care! I get to watch and see Elle any time I want. It also makes me feel better seeing how the teachers care for the kids. I've seen them clean the room everyday, sanitize the floors, mats, swings, which is great! Here are some snapshots I took today.

Elle is doing tummy time in the middle of the room

Elle is on the rocker, sitting on her teacher's lap

Daddy Jarbs picked up Elle today. You can see him and Elle on lower right side of photo

Daddy Jarbs knew I was watching the webcam so he lifted 

Elle in front of the camera to say hi to me lol

Day care webcam access!

Elle's day care has a webcam which the parents can access and view whenever they want. Each parent is given their own username and password. Today, our access to the day care's webcam finally got activated! Yay! I can stalk my baby whenever I want to :-). It made me feel a tad better knowing I can "see" her whenever I want.

Below is a snapshot of the day care webcam which is located in the infant room. You can't see clearly but Elle is sitting on the bouncy chair in the middle of the room. Thank goodness for technology! :-)