Boo! Halloween!

It's Halloween! Clara has officially been at Daycare for 31 days.. well minus the weekends.

She's doing so great so far.. I'm glad I picked the right Daycare (eventhough it's darn $$$$!!).. The teachers are so loving. Clara now has a "grandma" figure, 2 motherly teachers, and 2 fun and young teachers to interact with. Not to mention the other cute babies whom she can pretend to be her siblings.. :)

Clara has officially been deemed as the "happy" baby. She smiles and laughs constantly. She must be thinking some of the funniest things inside her head cos she'll bust out laughing all on her own. She would also smile and laugh at other babies - particularly, babies in distress. I'd like to think that she's trying to cheer them up versus laughing "at" them.

At one occasion, Miss Joy was holding Clara on her lap when Clara busted out laughing. Miss Joy looked at where Clara was looking at and laughing at. Elise, a younger 4 month old baby had just thrown up milk all over herself. How naughty!

At another, involves a little 10 month old Indian boy, who cries constantly cos he's new at Daycare. He spent his first 10 months of life at home with his grandparents and so starting daycare so late has not turned out so well for him. But whenever he wails and cries, Clara would turn to him and laugh. Now here, I'd like to think that she's trying to cheer him up.

Anyway, we ended Clara's first month of Daycare with Halloween. We brought her Purple Dinosaur costume (which her grandma bought for her) to Daycare. They dressed her up and showed her off to the older kids in the school. She is a popular baby I hear with her cuteness and all!

I was thinking of bringing her to the outlet mall near our house. The stores are doing trick/treating.. and thought it'd be fun to bring her. But she's still zzz from her late evening nap. Maybe not.. maybe next year when she's older!

Guilt tripping Daddy... :)

John routinely calls me from his car in the morning on his way to drop Clara off. Yesterday, he called me again after he dropped Clara yesterday and told me that apparently, Clara got mad at Daddy!

'She woke up yesterday in a bad mood" was how Daddy described it. She wouldn't want to play by herself like she usually would in the morning after a feeding and a change while Daddy gets ready. Well, Daddy has to get ready so no choice but to leave her crying. He took his time of course, like a heartless Daddy would! And left her crying. She cried so hard that she fell asleep. Then woke up again crying. Needless to say, she had a tough morning.

John drove her to daycare and brought her in. The moment Clara saw the teachers, she gave them a big wide smile. Miss Joy took her in her arms.. and Clara immediately turned to Daddy and gave him an "evil look."... Then turned back to Miss Joy and gave her another big smile.

It was so obviously intentional that Daddy got hurt.. :(... Daddy usually spends 5-10 minutes there before taking off. Clara wouldn't smile at him and purposely would smile at the teachers only.. In the end, John really needed to go so he told Clara "Sorry and to pls not to be mad at him." She finally did .. :)

I tell ya.. Clara sure knows how to guilt-trip her daddy.

Separation Anxiety

It's Day 3 for me. It's back to work.. and Clara's 3rd day at Daycare.. :(

Yes.. separation anxiety. But I have to say it's me who's anxious about being away from Clara.

I worked out with my employer a schedule that would allow me to see more of Clara.. which is a 6AM - 3PM work schedule. I have to wake up at a crazy early morning hour of 3:50AM but I'm used to it by now to be up at odd hours. I'm missing my daily naps with Clara though.. :(... At least, I get to leave work early, pick her up and spend some waking time with her.

Waking up early also means I may not get to say goodbye to her in the morning.. :(.. Like this morning. I sneaked in quietly into her bedroom and watched her sleep for a bit before I left. She's been sleeping through the night pretty good the last week or so. The rain would keep her up sometimes but usually, she'll go to bed around 8-9PM and wake up around 5-6AM. She may wake up like yesterday morning at around 3:45AM.. just before my alarm went off. I got to feed her and put her back to sleep before I went to work which was a treat.

Clara on the other hand seems to be having a good time at Daycare. At least, she seems happy and content.. just really tired by the end of the day. The teachers say she's real easy and happy. So hopefully, I'm the only one suffering here.. My biggest fear is that she won't remember who I am.. it sounds silly but the fear is real and in my head the fear is not an illogical one! Sigh..............

I can't wait for the weekend to arrive so I can spend 2 whole days with her.. and have her all to myself..

I miss her...............