I love daycare!

Me, with my classmates Chiara (1 yo, in red) and Allison (8 mo, in white)
during our outing today!!  I was mesmerized by the sights, as you can see.

So, I just finished up my first full week at daycare (Tuesday through Friday), and I got this daycare thing in the bag!  I adjusted without so much as a peep to being in daycare!  I love my new classmates and the teachers.  When mommy and daddy picked me up tonight for the weekend, I couldn't stop smiling at Sandra and Ivette, two of my teachers.  Today in daycare, I went out for my first walk with my new friends.  We were pushed in a baby buggy together down Fifth and Sixth Avenues, and had to fight through the throngs of tourists -- ugh, they all mill about so slowly!!  My daycare is right in the heart of things, directly across the famous Rockefeller Center tree, and right next to Radio City Music Hall, so it is absolute madness these days!  But, I am a New Yorker after all, so I am used to the crowds.  And earlier this week, we did fingerpainting, and I got to squish some green paint in my fingers and did some fingerpainting (of a dinosaur, no less)!  Mommy is still trying to track down my work product, so stay tuned!

My teacher, Sandra, thinks that I am teething, so I was a bit grouchy earlier this week, and have been biting a lot, even during feedings (much to mommy's consternation).  She told mommy and daddy that I might get a diaper rash over the next few days and maybe a low fever, but hopefully that my new teeth will come in soon!  So exciting!!

Needless to say, I did a lot this week, and learned a lot, and made lots of new friends!  Today was my classmate, Chiara's first birthday, and her mommy and daddy (and grandparents) came and dropped off a goodies bag for everyone in class, and in the goodie bag, was a new book -- Goodnight, New York!  I was very excited to get the book (but maybe not as excited as mommy, who was getting awfully tired of reading Goodnight Moon).  And, I have been eating well (2 bottles a day, 4-5 ounces each time, plus a daily serving of rice cereal, which I just love love love), and napping well too (2-3 naps a day, for 1 to 1.5 hours each time) at daycare.  Plus, I sleep well at night (except for the few times the last few nights when I have ended up rolled onto my stomach in the middle of the night, which makes me very upset and wakes me up, because I don't know how to get back on my back, and I can't sleep on my belly!!! so I usually yelp, and daddy or mommy have to come to flip me back over), going down every night without a fight at between 730-8, and then not waking up until the morning!!  One of the only downsides of daycare is that I don't get to sleep in, as mommy always has to wake me up at 830 in the morning to eat and get dressed for daycare!  But, I guess I will get used to it soon enough.  I am looking forward to my next day at daycare, which will be on Tuesday, since mommy gets Mondays off for the time being.  Yay, it will be fun to have the whole weekend to play with mommy and daddy!