Friday, January 22, 2010

Daycare Update

Melia started daycare 6 months ago. It was a difficult day for me leaving her for the first time with strangers. Actually, it was hard for the first couple weeks.

Since then, I have been quite happy with our decision to place Melia in a "center". There has never been more than 4 kids in the infant room. Typically there is only two. Melia has been the consistent (and favorite) baby since she has been there. We love the ladies in her class and Melia seems very happy with them.

On February 1st Melia will be moving to the 1 year old room. There is still a small ratio (1 to 5), but there are currently 6 kids in the 1 year old room. I don't really know the teacher for that class, so I feel like we are starting daycare all over. The morning teacher in the infant class helps with the 1 year old class until 9:30A, so hopefully that will make the transition a little easier.

This week, however, Zhaneta (Melia's teacher) told me she has just been licensed for in home daycare. We love Zhaneta and have actually started the discussion about moving Melia out of the center and into Zhaneta's in home daycare. This has given us some things to think about over the next few weeks.