Daycare Diaries

Each time I drop off or pick up Huston from daycare I get a funny story or hear something cute he's done.  Sometimes I wish I could just sit and watch the camera all day and see what he's up to.  Luckily, he's got some pretty cool teachers (two of them anyway, one is an old bat) that fill me in.

This is Ms. Tabitha.  She loves him to pieces and gives me lots of good stories.  I found out today that he and a few of the kids have an unique way of saying "what's up".  They smack each other on the head.  This happened three days in a row and after getting on to him and asking if he was a bully, she tells me it's how they say hi and that they all do it.  Whew. She also tells me he sleeps with his blanket over his head.  I have to pick him up early on Monday for is 18 month appt, so I hope to get this on camera :)  The biggest complaint I get on him is that he is "busy" and "a climber".  Tell me about it!

This is little Lily.  Although he has had many "girlfriends", this is Huston's first crush I think.  She moved to his room a few weeks ago and is the youngest in the class.  Apparently our lil' man has been caught following her around, hugging her and poking her in the eye.  Yes, he pokes cute girls in the eye, she's not the first one....he needs some work on his flirting skills.  I took this picture right after he had her trapped on the play staircase and growled at her.  Hopefully she won't be pressing charges.....  If it's not a crush, it might just be a dominance thing, because she is the smallest, youngest and she still walks a little wobbly...he might just know he can take her.

And this little boy in the background in the blue shirt is Robert.  He is Huston's buddy and partner in crime.  They've been known to link arms and knock kids over, sneak out of the room and peek in the window laughing, climb bookshelves and tables, wrestle each other and run the classroom.  Robert just turned two, so as soon as there is a spot open in the next room, he will be moving.  Poor little H is going to experience his first friend "moving away".  But, in 6 more months H will move rooms too and maybe they will be reunited.  If they even recognize each other......we saw Robert at a play thing the other day and they didn't even know each other out of their element.

Even thought I miss being home with him during the day, I love that when I drop him off he just immediately starts to play and loves being there.  He gets to learn and play with new things daily and I have a reason to put on makeup and heels again....plus, I get a enough PTO that I can still take some days off here and there for a day of fun!