Goodbye daycare!

Dear Mai,

It's kind of bittersweet that I'm writing about this right now. Tomorrow is your first day of "preschool." Technically it is just a more regimented daycare, I get that but still, you had your last day at a home daycare you've been going to for over 3 years! We've been fairly busy so it's even amazing we've been half way organized to pull this off. If you knew us right now you'd be impressed. But really, you went to Florida with Mommy to visit Grandma. (Which I need to get mommy to create a post or two from that trip... you had a special visit that you can't stop talking about) Today you and I had one of our fun days together too. We went to see "Where the wild things are" the play and bummed around the Seattle Center all afternoon. (FYI, those are fake glasses. We were playing eye doctor at the Children's museum)

It's amazing to think about though. You're first day of daycare was when you were only 11 weeks old!

That daycare didn't last long and you were on to Ms. Vini's not too long after that. I remember after a few days of you going to Ms. Vini's that I felt so happy. Just talking to them, I knew they loved you so much and took really good care of you. It felt really good leaving you there knowing you were in great hands. Everyday you attended Ms. Vini's you were sent home with a little "report card" that had a summary of how your day went. This is from this past Friday, your last day there.

Mommy always saved them for me on our counter and I read every single one. I didn't notice this one until I was going to bed tonight and I have to admit, it made me tear up a bit. The one from Thursday was hilarious. It was the last time you were going to see one of your best friends there, Kaiden and Ms. Vini reported that you told him "you're going to miss me Kaiden." Ha! 

There was one time early one that you were sent home with an incident report! We didn't even notice the scratch and it didn't seem to bother you. They were on the ball though!

I wanted to tell them that it was all okay and that it's gonna happen because babies do dumb stuff like this.

Boy am I glad we're out of that phase!

You seem to have a pretty good understanding of what's happening. You said your goodbyes and said you were going to miss Ms. Vini's but you are super excited about your new school. 

I guess I better get to bed too so we're all well rested for tomorrow. I can't wait to see how it goes for you. I sure hope we have that comforting feeling we had with Ms. Vini with your new school too!

Good luck tomorrow my princess.

Love,



Daddy