Parker & Graham: This & That

Parker's sleeping habits are still not back to as wonderful as they were a month ago, but they have improved since my "sleep regression" post. Some nights she won't wake up at all; some nights she'll wake up five times. A couple days this week she needed to eat at 4:30 am; other days it was 6:00 am. Some days she'll take a nice 2 hour nap at daycare; other days it's four 20 minute cat naps. We can't figure out a pattern, so we are just gonna keep on keepin' on and hope as she gets older things will sort themselves out.

We are moving Parker to new daycare. There some things we were not 100% happy with at Banners. One example is that some days the teachers would clean the floors before all the babies were gone for the day and Parker would come home smelling like Lysol....we just don't like the idea of her being in such close proximity to all those chemicals. Last week, Parker had her first bruise. A techer was feeding her in a rocking chair and when she finished and stood up she didn't realize Parker's leg was in the arm of the chair. It resulted in a pretty good bruise. We understand that things like this happen, but it did prompt us to make a call to the childcare program at the Jewish Community Center. We were interested in the JCC over the summer when we started searching for childcare, but they had no openings at that time. Now they have a family moving and so an infant spot is opening up. We toured the facility and liked what we saw. Our neice, Clare, attends the JCC in Pittsburgh and loves it. They have great programs for when Parker is older, like a great summer camp. We do not have an official switch date yet, but it will be March 1 at the latest.