D-day #2

Today marks a big day in the DuFrene house hold. Nathaniel has started daycare! With Malachi we waited until about 8 weeks, but our daycare gal will be gone on a vacation at 8 weeks. We want him to get acclimated with the daycare environment before she is gone (she has someone coming in to cover her time away). This will also help get him on the routine that will have been established by the time of said vacation. It has been an okay day for mom. With Malachi it was a little harder-the first kiddo is always a bit tougher, but I still did okay with him so knew today was going to go smoothly. The issue with today wasn't that it was the first day that stressed me out with him going, it was the general chaos of the day. We, in Hutch, have a ministry that is called Release time. The middle school students have an opportunity to come to our church 1 day a month to hear God's Word. It is state law that if a religious organization has a program 1 time per week that students are allowed to attend during school hours without being counted absent and the teachers cannot teach anything new. To be respectful of the chaos of teaching the same subject 6-7 times a day and being required to not teach anything new during the time students are away, we only have it 1 time a month for Middle School (we do have it weekly for Elementary students). Today happened to be the day that this release time fell this month. The boys had to come with to it, because of what time of the day it is held for MS students. It is earlier than they normally would go to daycare. But here is why it is extra chaotic, the youth directors have a monthly meeting (after this program) each month. It is hosted at my church on months that have release time....meaning I run across town with the boys, gave the schpeal on how Nathaniel is, and run back for the meeting.

But overall I know he will have done fine, we told Malachi this morning to make sure none of the "big" kids pick on Nathaniel. Knowing full well that Malachi might be the one that wants to lay on him, carry him, take care of him, etc.

Above is a photo taken on Saturday of the boys "talking".