percy accompanied us to her child care orientation day today. from mid january next year she'll be going to SDN early learning centre in erko for three days a week.
oddly, or maybe not so oddly to people that don't have mortgages and careers and do have under utilised family nearby, we were asked not to bring her to the orientation session. uh duh! if we had someone else to look after her we wouldn't be needing child care at $78 a day.
she did sleep for a little while, while there. hopefully she makes up the short fall this afternoon. on a funny note i got her home, while paul went to work, at 11am. since this is her usual getting up time from her morning nap, accompanied by a boobie feed i thought we'd do the feed and then try some more sleeping. feed good, sleep not happening. getting to the funny bit! we leave a dummy in percy's cot in case we really can't find any other way of soothing her, it's a last resort to reach for in the middle of the nite. well after half an hour or so of her being quiet in the cot i looked in on her- she'd wriggled up, grabbed the dummy and popped in her own mouth and turned on the music to her mobile. so much for sleeping!! it was adorably funny tho.
back to child care... we've got the enrollment form and all the other 'welcome pack' guff. i've written down her name for two settling in periods in the second week of january and then she'll start the week beginning the 14th (think it's the 14th.) so let the fun begin. i'm sure it will be harder for me than her. the settling in sessions are when i or paul or both us of accompany her to the centre for 2 or 3 hours to get her somewhat familiar with the surrounds, the people and the new life before being left without her usual "blankie" of mum or dad. for the little time she spent looking around today she was happy.
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