First day of daycare: Ryan, 1; Sleep, 0

Ryan slept through the night on the night before our Big Day, waking to eat for the first time at 6:15 a.m. Normally this would be cause for celebration... but it screwed up my Entire Whole Complete Plan and Rule Book For The Big Day because after I fed him, he didn't go back to sleep because he sensed me moving about the house like a mad woman and he knew something was afoot.

So he got up at 6:15 a.m.

And slept for 10 minutes in the car on the way to daycare, 20 minutes the entire day at daycare, and 35 minutes in the car on the way home. For those of you keeping score, that's 65 whole minutes of sleep in a 12 hour period when the LG usually gets four times that much.


Here's Ryan, not sleeping in his daycare crib

Learning to nap at daycare is gonna be a long haul. But because our LG is so charming and generally well-rested, he was a peach the entire day. Miss Julie, Miss Bernie and Miss Shannon said he was an absolute charmer, despite spitting up carrots and breastmilk over all three outfits I brought him. Hunter visited at lunchtime, when Ryan stared down the infant room screamer after that boy made another little girl cry.


Here's Ryan, yawning because he wouldn't sleep in his daycare crib

Then he snuggled with his Daddy and couldn't stop smiling and giggling.


Ryan's a gamer.