I Heart Daycare

And my kids do too!  They so needed to be back into a solid routine.  They both love being back with their friends and they are learning so much every day.  Kaitlyn is even napping at daycare and is still able to fall asleep at a reasonable time without her summer routine of getting out of bed a hundred times.  If I remember to get her to go potty before AND after bath time, then she doesn't come out of her room at all. 

The only thing that I am not thrilled about is that Tyler is with the same teacher he had when he left.  He should be in the older toddler class because he is 19 months, but they have so many toddlers right now he's still with his old teacher.  Not that I don't like his current teacher, but I really love the older toddler teacher.  She did so well with Kaitlyn and she really likes that age group.  I know it's really weird to say because their toddlers, but I feel she really gives them a good foundation for learning.  She really gets in to teaching them shapes and colors and the basics they need.  Tyler needs so much more help in this department and I really wanted him to be with a teacher who was good at teaching such a young age group.  (For the record at this age Kaitlyn was speaking over 100 words, using simple sentences, knew all her colors, shapes and ABC's.) 

I'm also happy that Kaitlyn now has homework and of course she's excited to do it.  We work on it together and hopefully this will carry through when she starts school.  I love that she asks to do her homework when she's still at daycare and she calls everything she works on homework.  So cute.

I know we save a lot of money when we take the kids out of daycare for the summer, but I think this summer I'm going to try to talk daddy into keeping at least Kaitlyn in or I need to find some type of summer program for her.  She really needs the mental stimulation and I can only do so much on my own.