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Will loves to look out the walk-through style front windows! We have paper blinds up (the $3 kind from Home Depot… we’re still trying to figure out a way to get affordable plantation shutters). Will loves to play with the paper blinds and plays “Where’s Will?”
Here, Will has just emerged after being asked, “Where’s Will???”
Will was a COMPLETE JOY today. He was so much fun — laughing, playing, talking (new words: PapPap, Agua — he actually can identify water). We had a raspberry contest for a full 5 minutes. (It was a close call until Daddy joined in… Daddy clearly won!)
Will spilled all his Cheerios on the floor and is here laughing about it!
He ran.
In the last 24 hours, Will has gone from crawling with occassional stepping to stepping with occassional crawling. It is truly an amazing transformation… both in skill and speed.
We are completely impressed, a bit excited, and totally terrified.
More of Will and his bathtime show. Maybe I shouldn’t have watched “The Osbournes” while pregnant?
Will during a bath over our recent trip to Oriental, NC. He LOVES the water… it is difficult to take him out of the tub! He also is a total ham and puts on a great show.
Margarita (our Salvadorean nanny) stopped by last night with her son and granddaughters. We worked out a babysitting plan that works with her schedule at the local taqueria. She will come each morning (Monday-Friday) from 8-11am. So, we’ve got 15 hours a week of babysitting… at $150 a week ($10/hour). We really like her and she is great with Will. And we are lucky to have her. Still, the expense is considerable. Most full-time daycare is roughly $400-500 a month: cheaper than what we are paying now for Margarita. But the in-home care is really the only option we have until he’s older.
Lesson to be learned: children under 3 (ie: children who are not potty-trained) are VERY difficult to place in daycare, because of the high ratios and requirements for these caregivers. You have to have something arranged way in advance (one year is the shortest waiting list for these ages). OR, you have to have in-home care. This is high on my list of “things parenting has taught me.”
Oh, and seeing a daycare is really heart-breaking. The thought of leaving your kid in a place with lots of other small kids that need equal attention is very hard. The bottom line is that you actually DON’T want your kid in daycare as much as you actually want it.
Dream solution: grandparents who live next door and want to help LOTS.
We celebrated my b-day on Thursday, the 6th with dinner — just Paul and I. We tried out a place in town (Olde College Inn) that is a popular local’s spot. It was fun and a great place to take folks and now that we’ve checked it out, we know that it is kid-friendly.
Mom stayed and babysat — she and Will watched Broadway documentaries. (Will is a fan of musicals, of course.)
Good thing that we got dinner in… if we’d have waited, we’d have been out of luck! Mom got *terribly* sick in the wee-hours and spent the rest of her visit in bed. In fact, my Dad came last night, stayed the night (Mom was too weak to travel) and took her home today. (We lost our babysitter!!) Poor Granna, she is really sick and feels so badly that she can’t help more.
The fact that everyone: Paul’s folks, my mom, Amy, Kevin, and Paul — ALL got sick with this virus and I somehow did not is very interesting. I figure I must have some great antibody for this type of rotavirus?
Will is definitely on the mend. He still isn’t eating much and is in major tote-mode (Scheib speak for “wants to be held and carried”) , but is laughing, playing, singing, and exploring again.
His kung-foo roll off the changing pad, super-stretch to the kleenex box, and swift removal of every tissue during the brief 30 seconds I spent throwing away his diaper is a good example of how we know our little man is coming back.
In the great Wisneskey-male-family tradition, Will and Grandpa take a rest. December 29th, 2004
