Day care

Elliot just started his fourth week of day care (or school, as he calls it). He still cries every morning when I drop him off and begs, "No school mama. No play kids. No work, Mama." Chad gets to pick him up every day- sometimes Elliot's excited to see him and sometimes he cries. Apparently the hardest parts of the day are drop off and when other kids start to get picked up, before Chad arrives. In the morning he cries for Mama and in the evening for Daddy. They've been good about giving him pictures of us or a stuffed animal to cuddle and it seems to help.

The first few days I dropped him off, I would call when I got to work to see how it was going and he'd always be fine, eating pancakes or playing with other kids.

When he comes home, he talks about specific kids and sometimes throws in a "play kids" or "hug kids." He seems to be having fun overall and he'll soon be going only half time when I reduce my hours back to 20/wk. He didn't cry Tuesday or today when I dropped him off. He also didn't nap Tuesday at all so I'm not sure what's going on there.

Update 30 March: the day after this post, Elliot didn't cry during drop off and hasn't since.