July 7 - To Quote Baby Signing Times, "A Hard Day"

I had a grrrrrrrrreat night's sleep last night!! 10 whole hours w/o stopping! It's been a while since I slept through the night w/o stirring. I woke up happy and everything was great. And then..... Day Care! Mommy and I come in and there's a boy around my age having a m-a-j-o-r meltdown! He's just returning to day care after an absence of I don't know how long. He wouldn't stop crying unless "Teacher" was holding him. Then another kid showed up in tears. Mommy felt so bad leaving me like that. I doubt the "teacher" could even give me special attention, since she had 2 kids in her arms already. Such a bummer.

Mommy left work a little early to pick me up from day care. Daddy had agreed to do it, but Mommy forgot to leave the car seat at day care. She ran into Dana (the teacher), and she said that I had a tough morning. I was inconsolable. I was crying and carrying on, I didn't want to be held. I took a very tiny nap in the morning, but I rallied and had a 2 hour nap in the afternoon. When mommy came into the room to get me, I was eating a graham cracker at the table. I didn't exactly "freak out" or squeal with delight at her appearance. But, when she stepped into the wobbler room to retrieve my sippy cup, I lost it! I thought she was leaving me again!! Fortunately, she came over and sat with me while I finished my snack.

Then we left and went to Costco and then home. Mommy played with me and let me run around the media room while she watched "The Next Food Network Star" For some reason, she's fairly addicted to that show.

I had a great dinner of rice, chicken, corn & peas, and Mommy also gave me cottage cheese, which I LUV. She also gave me a wonderful bath... No bubbles in the sink, no shampoo. Just lathered me up and put me in the sink. No trauma!

I did a lot of practice walking tonight. I'm getting so good at it. I also showed Mom I know how to sign "Please", "Thank You" and "Hurt". I think those are all new (Mommy hadn't asked about hurt before)

I impress my parents every day!

I hopefully will have a good night's sleep and will have a better day at Day Care tomorrow. The G'rents are coming home 2 days early and Mommy toyed with the idea of changing her schedule this week. She decided to try one more day of Day Care. If it's traumatic again, she may see about staying home on Wednesday and working on Thursday or Friday instead.

Daddy will drop me off at ISNW tomorrow. If it works well, he will pick me up, too. He can be the hero :-)