Not all skies have rainbows..

Last week started a new and exciting chapter in Ashlyn’s life: daycare. I think there are some good things about daycare. It teaches a level of independence since she won’t get attention 100% of the day. It helps build social skills, and kids in daycare tend to learn things faster when they see other kids doing them (crawling, for instance). It also, and some may argue that this is not a good thing, exposes them to germs now so that they won’t get sick as much when they start school.

The first day, to put it bluntly, sucked. I did NOT like leaving her there, and the image I kept having in my head was of her crying as we looked at her in her little crib. We moved out of sight and she calmed down and looked around, but I still couldn’t shake that image. Luckily, when I came by to pick her up she was happily playing away. So it wasn’t so bad, and each day gets a little easier. Unfortunately, she got sick the first week as almost every child does, and we got to experience her first ear infection. She’s on the mend from it, and we hope she’ll be back in full form by this weekend.

Despite all the change, Ashlyn has handled things pretty well. And because this blog will stay around much longer than my poor memory, I’m going to end this entry with some happy pictures that we took over the last few weeks.  These are the images I want to hold to.