Um yeah. Not good. One would think that sending her milk (labeled of course), a note detailing what she can and can't have and separate discussions with the director as well as her head teacher would prevent someone from pouring her a big old glass of milk. Not so much. That's just one of about a million things (also including 2 of her 3 new teachers quitting last week) that drew the final line in the sand with her current daycare.
She's had about 24-25 different teachers in the last 14 months. Um yeah, that ain't right.
It's one thing when she's an infant and pretty much just needs to eat, sleep and have her poop changed. Most any trained monkey can handle that. But now she forms attachments and her school has lost some seriously good teachers lately (with more on their way out) and we're tired of baking brownies and making going away cards. And we're getting SO BIG! We need teachers who will be there for us, and directors who actually care enough about their teachers to make that happen. Would you work somewhere for a small salary with absolutely no paid vacation and sick time having kids scream at you all day? Yeah, I didn't think so. Besides, when you're just throwing subs in a room and telling them to give my kid a glass of milk and thus make her sick - there's no way it's going to work out.
So I've been back on the tour circuit. We went ahead and put in our two weeks notice last Friday. We don't have anything lined up, but one smaller in-home daycare I toured last week has major possibility. It's also just 1 mile from our house, so it would save me probably about 30 minutes in the afternoon. I have one other tour on Tuesday so then we'll decide. Even though I haven't toured the other center I'm leaning towards the in-home place, especially after calling her references this afternoon and talking to other parents. It seems like it would be a much less stressful environment and she's running a very well organized little operation. She has a website but for both her and our privacy I won't be posting a link. With a face like this, who wouldn't want to take care of Lilli???
She was a MESS all week this week. She went to bed between 1-1.5 hours early every night just from being overstimulated so much all day. She also came home starving from the absolute crap they were feeding her during the day, so normally I'd have to give her a snack the second we hit the back door upon getting home. Friday night (once again) we had to give her a snack at 4:30, so we waited until a little after 6 to head to dinner, and decided just to go to Nuvo Burrito in our neighborhood since it's super low key and close to home. She really, really can't stay in her seat anymore. Who is the idiot who designed all these restaurant high chairs where they can use that upper bar to push up and stand up???? There's not a seat-belt invented that can hold her down anymore....
She actually did really well at dinner. As usual, she talked to anyone sitting around us. Since it was a pretty hip and trendy crowd no one hardly gave her the time of day. However, that really doesn't stop her because she will continue to yell HEY at you until you acknowledge her in some way.
So, that's the real deal. There's a lot going on here in Lilli-land. I guess the up-side of potentially having to sneak Lilli into our workplaces in my handbag is that it could make for some interesting blog posts!
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