Back to school...

10 weeks old - As the new semester is quickly approaching (I start inservice this Monday), Cate started daycare half-days this past week so that we could both adjust to it (and so I could get my office and syllabi in order) before she starts full time this next week. Here is a picture of her before her first day of school. She's still pretty sleepy because it is 6am.

She attends the University's child care center, which is about a 20 min walk from my office. Her teachers, Jennifer and Tiffany, are wonderful women and the student workers who help out in her room seem really engaged too. Every day when I went to pick her up she was playing happily. She is quite popular at the center, as several of the teachers from other classes and both center directors stop us to talk to her every time we leave (getting out of there takes us quite a while). The only down side is that she doesn't like eating there. I'm not sure why she resists taking a bottle from them, as she doesn't mind taking one from Chaz at home. But, she won't eat more than 2 oz every three hours (and often less than that). I'm hoping that she gets more comfortable eating from them as she gets more used to all the excitement.

Cate has also been consistently sleeping better at night. She's been sleeping from around 9pm to 3:30am and then until 6:00-6:30am. This means I'm now only getting up once at night, since I get up at 6:00 for work anyway. It also means that I'm getting 5 hours of sleep in a row pretty much every night, which makes me a happy mommy.

Life at home has been as exciting as ever. Our air conditioner died Wednesday night, and I spent most of the day Thursday trying to get it fixed. It was only 24 hours, but geesh it was hot.

In other news, school and work start in full force next week, so life will get even busier (is that possible?)