"Can I please, please, please go to childcare?"

Lily and Husdon

Dropping Eli off at Childcare

Childcare time down by the cove

Lily and Hudson- good friends- too cute!

I just love this picture of Lily!

Above: Eli in the childcare room (in the church parish hall)

Below: Lily and her boys (Jack and Husdon)

While we were on the project in Bar Harbor we had full time (40 hours a week) childcare! Of course I couldn't quite take full advantage of that because I couldn't be away from Eli for too long (since he was still eating every three hours). But I was able to be pretty involved in the project and many of the other moms were able to be very involved so it was wonderful in that way. We had two AMAZING childcare workers- Anna and Elizabeth. Anna is a good friend of ours (with a one year old daughter of her own) and Elizabeth is a student from U-Maine (and now a friend too). These too did the most wonderful job with our children. In fact, Elizabeth is now the only other person besides Joe and I that is able to get Eli to go to sleep! We are thrilled that she will be living only a few minutes away from us this fall (and willing to do some babysitting).

So not only was childcare a blessing for us, but Lily just absolutely LOVED it! In fact on one of our days off she said to me, "Can I please, please, please go to childcare?" She just loved being with the other kids (her little friends)- she is such a little extrovert. Not only did she get to play with her friends but they also got to do many fun things like crafts, playing games, taking trips down the road to the cove, time in the sprinkler, daily song/music time, etc...

Hip Hip Hooray for wonderful childcare!

P.S. Thanks to Anna for these great pictures she took of the kids in childcare!