The babysitter situation is going really well – Christin is so sweet with Micah, and it really frees me up to get my work done and even run the occasional errand. We also got a call that our first choice daycare has a full-time slot available for us as of August 31. Right after that, we found another daycare (recommended by a friend) that has a slot available mid-August, so we have to figure out if that is the right option for us. I love having Micah at home with me so I can see him on my breaks, but I have a feeling that as he gets older, he won’t let me get my work done once he realizes I’m in the other room. We are thinking of paying for the 5 days, and putting him there most days from 9 or 10 until 4. I will probably keep him home at least 1 day every week for mommy time, and we have a Thursday class together this Fall. I think I’d prefer to enroll him in a part-time 3 day a week daycare, but right now we don’t seem to have that option. We may try enrolling full-time and see if they will work with us to drop down to part-time.
Micah is also quite busy these days… he likes to be doing something all the time. He is very busy when he plays with his toys, or rolls on the floor. He is constantly grabbing and doing. He actually started using the jumperoo this week – we finally figured out how to lower it, and he is now fitting in it quite nicely. I thought I’d round off this post with some recent pictures of Micah busily playing in his exersaucer.
Here is a video for good measure (naturally, he stopped playing and demonstrating how busy he can be and started mugging for the video instead, but hey, he is just too cute I had to post it anyway) – press the triangle on the lower left to see the video!