Boyfriend?!?!

I think (knock on wood) we are crossing the daycare trauma hump?  I think maybe we are approaching the days of tear-less-ness?  Or getting closer at least.

This morning at drop off... still tears upon getting 10 feet near the daycare front door.  BUT... there was some improvement.  There is a computer to sign the kids in & then fill out a paper about how their morning was, if they had breakfast or not, & other misc. info.  This then becomes their "report card" for the day.  I always get the kids into the actual toddler room, then go back & fill it all out because its just too much to do that with 3 toddlers clinging & yelling "bye-bye."  Usually the screaming/crying is still going on when I'm done checking in & head out the door to work (they can not see me from their room doing this, its not that mean).  But today..... the tears had ceased before I was done writing down the time daddy was planning to pick them up!  I actually walked out of that daycare door without my tail between my legs for the first time thus far! 

On pick up... some clinging & worry about being put down.  But NO tears!  Not one!  Amazed! 

And the director made a point to tell us how well today went.  Besides the few tears at drop off, Hayden shed a few one time.  Otherwise NONE!  A few times he stood by the front gate & said "daddy?" hoping he would be coming 'round the corner.  But sounds like it was a very good day.  Probably helped that they played outside with bubbles today...they LOVE bubbles.  But please, oh please let this be the start of the upward trend.  Not that its been that bad, it hasn't, but I'm excited for them to maybe, hopefully actually enjoy & be excited about their days there.  I know they do fun things.  Today they played with some cool sensory bottles with colored water, glitter, beads, star shapes & such inside of them. 

They ate well there again today.  Tomato soup & grilled cheese.  {But do you think they'll eat grilled cheese at home?  What is not to love about grilled cheese?}  They are getting so comfortable there we even had our first poop at daycare.  Sounds stupid, but I feel like my kids very rarely poop out & about.  Its like they are uncomfortable pooping anywhere but home.  Then we can spend a day at home & I can change what seems like 18 dirty diapers!  But today Hayden pooped at daycare.  Not sure why that seems like a big deal to me, but for some reason it does.  Ha.

Their "report card" says today they were friendly, happy, silly & chatty. CHATTY... I love that one!!  They even hand wrote in that they were full of smiles today :) 

The end of daycare days, (or even GG daycare at her house days when the kids have to get up at the butt crack of dawn) always is a rougher evening.  More fighting.  More crabbing.  And earlier to bed.  Makes me think of the stress on a kiddo jumping into full day Kindergarten or something.  But such is life...

So why is this post titled boyfriend??  Well Livi has her first "boyfriend" at daycare.  Boyfriend, meaning he is a boy, whose name she knows.  That counts as a boyfriend at 22 months, right? 

Her friend's name is Jack.  When they were headed out to play today she pointed to him & said "Jack."  She even showed us who Jack was when her teacher Miss Amanda asked her when we picked them up.  (P.S.  I love when I have time to go help Jeff pick them up in the afternoons!)  And she said "bye Jack" when we left.

I am very glad that she is making friends... but it just a little bit makes me laugh, because as her mama, I see it just a little bit differently.  See the weather here has been cool.  We have been putting on our jackets... or "jack" as Livi calls them, when we go outside.  She knows what a "jack" is & says it often.  Even though it was warm out one afternoon, she insisted she had to wear "Ya-ya jack" to Walmart.  {"Ya-ya" is Olivia's way of saying her own name.  The past few days she points to herself & says "Ya-ya" constantly!!!}  So... I'm guessing that Jack was wearing a "jack" or that when the teachers told them they were going outside, she was making sure everyone had their "jack" on.  {She can be a little motherly like that.}  However, whether or not that is now it started, she obviously put it together in the end that that boy was Jack... because she could show us.  So while I'm not running out to plan "ya-ya" & Jack's wedding, I'm glad to see they are interacting with other kids while we are away!

PS.. how is September 2/3 over??  Time is FLYING by lately.  Absoutely flying!  I still feel like it should be July!  And this time of year goes SOO fast because its so busy.  My birthday, Halloween, the kids' 2nd Birthday, Jeff's birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years... and then 2012 is here!  Throw in there the fact that my sister is going to be 35 weeks pregnant on Friday & all the excitement that a new niece brings to life.  And I think the next 3 months are going to go by in a blink & it makes me sad!