Day Care

Last Thursday, Camden started his first day of day care. It was a day of mixed emotions for his Mommy and Daddy. Kim has done such a wonderful job with him and it's hard to let go. Kim starts back to work tomorrow, so we wanted a few days to go through a little dry run.

Mommy was a wreck the day before day care started. Like I said, she's done such a good job with Camden and there's been so much mother-son bonding. She is so conflicted with letting someone else take care of him. Which is very understandable. We're trying to look at day care as a way for Camden to socialize a bit. The teachers at his day care are so good. They'll have him learning sign language, playing with other babies, and so much more than we might have time for or think of.

I've never spent any time in a day care, so I was amazed at how much the day care ladies can handle. They proficient at feeding one baby, comforting another with a song, and watching as another crawls around the nursery. It may seem like there's too much going on for them to keep track of, but it's an interesting display of controlled chaos.

How did Camden do? Well, by all accounts he did great. He seems to be adjusting to the change just fine.

So Kim starts back to work tomorrow. Conveniently for us, the day care is on site at Kim's work. I'm hoping that it will make it easier for Kim to go back to work because of it. She's free to stop in and check on Camden anytime she wants. Heck, it's even close enough for me to stop in during my lunch hour, too. Tomorrow starts a huge change to our daily life. It'll take some time to adjust to it, but Camden's such a good kid that I think he'll make it pretty easy for us.