First of many...

I'm pretty sure many moms remember the first day their son or daughter went off to daycare. They have this gut wrenching feeling - will he remember me when I pick him up? Will the daycare provider know how to soothe him? Will he be happy?

With two dry eyes, I pulled into Mrs. Feny's driveway and let out a big sigh. Levi was screaming in the back seat (maybe he was crying for both of us). As I pulled all of the stuff out of the trunk, Mrs. Feny was practically running down the driveway - "Good Morning!! Levi! I'm so excited to see you!" Again, a big sigh...this time of relief. I have a VERY good feeling that Mrs. Feny is a perfect match for us. She seems very genuine with Levi. She was so concerned when she saw his brace when she met him earlier this summer and was SO happy to see him this morning.

After informing her of Levi's antics, I said my goodbye to my smiling boy and walked back to my car. I turned around one last time only to see that Levi wasn't smiling anymore. He was staring at me with a furrowed brow and if he could speak I think he would have been saying, "where are you going, Mommy?" It was heartbreaking.

I promised myself I wasn't going to call and check in. If I let myself - I would probably have called every hour. After watching a LOT of meaningless, trashy television that had built up on my DVR and a quick lunch with my boss, I jumped out of bed at 3:40 to go and pick up Levi. As much as I enjoyed the time to myself, I missed my little man.

Mrs. Feny writes a report of the daily happenings in a spiral notebook that now has "LEVI" on the cover:

Welcome to the First Day in Feny Daycare (9.7.2010)

WHAT I DID TODAY:

When I came, I seemed to be: HAPPY.

I ate at:

8:30 am (3oz)

10:30 am (3oz)

12:30 pm (3oz)

2:50 pm (3oz)

I changed at:

9:30 am

11:15 (dirty diaper)

2:15

I slept from:

8:50 am - 9:15 am

12:30 pm - 2:10 pm

During the day, I enjoyed the following activities:

- In the morning, I had tummy time for 10 minutes.

- I liked looking at my black and white book during tummy time.

- I was happy to see Kaysan (her son) say "hi" to me.

- We went for a walk at the park.

- I liked looking around the park.

- We played music and Mrs. Feny sang "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"

- I love when Mrs. Feny talks to me. I was happy & laughing.

- We read the book about "Eye Spy an Octupus"

While Michael and I go and make money to support this little guy, I have confidence that Levi is in good hands....and there is nothing better than knowing what he's doing all day :) This woman is good - she actually got Levi to take TWO naps in the crib.

I'm happy to report that we survived our first of many first days.....