daycare 3-week report

It has been three weeks since Yueyue starts daycare. In the first week, she cries on and off for 4 days. We were really worried about it. In the second week, she cried when mom/dad dropped her (she still does, but stops crying right after mom disappears from her sight). She starts to act as normal in daycare in two weeks, shouting, laughing and playing with other kids. The transition length is normal. In the past three weeks, many things we were worried turns out unnecessary. Two teachers and assistant teachers are really nice to her and have never called parents to take her back even though on the fourth day she cries harshly, resisting to nap and throwing food to floor. They hold Yueyue, the youngest child in the class, a lot.

The best thing about daycare is yueyue's diet. Yueyue used to eat like a bird. Our babysitter Fan really loves Yueyue except for her diet. Whatever she tried, Yueyue wouldn't eat more than a few crackers from 9 am to 5 pm. Since she started daycare, she suddenly picked up her appetite. Her lead teacher describes her as “Oh, she is a GREAT eater, just eating, eating and eating.” In the daily report, very often she has three "Full serving" circled, morning snack, lunch and afternoon snack, at least two everyday. She really loves snacks provided by daycare. She starts to love a large variety of foods, such as milk and cereal, peanut butter bread.

The second best thing is Yueyue's sleep. Before daycare, she still had a lot of energy left after a day with babysitter and she liked playing with dad and mom so much. She won't go to bed easily. She always woke up a couple of times in the evening before she fell sound sleep. We spent a lot of effort to put her back to sleep again and again during night. Now, after a busy playing day, she goes to sleep quickly at 9 pm, mostly no wake-up during the night. Mom stills need company her to sleep, but that is the most pleasant time. Now mom starts to cherish the playing time on bed with her and worry the pleasant time getting too short.

In the past three weeks, one pink eye and one flu were reported in her class (9 children). Fortunately other children were not infected. Yueyue had seasonal flu vaccine but not debatable H1N1 flushot. Mom still nurses her. Hopefully this can do a little help to Yueyue for a healthy winter. Stay warm, my dear.