Other reasons these past few weeks have been insane

Looking a little dazed and confused on his first day of school

In addition to all of the b5media drama, there have been a lot of other changes going on around here the past few weeks. Luke started a new job two weeks ago, I started a new day job one week ago, and Cooper started daycare. So basically, everyone’s schedules have drastically changed, and none of us has any idea which way is up at any given time.

The whole job thing happened really quickly, so it was very fortunate that I was able to find a daycare for Cooper that didn’t creep me out. I had toured a few places over the summer, and although they were nice (and in one case, very expensive), there was something that depressed me about each of them. Neither was a place I wanted to send my child all day.

Luckily, we found one that the three of us felt good about: it was clean, the teachers seemed competent, and it has a good curriculum. Cooper has been going three days a week for the past few weeks, and he seems to be adjusting pretty well to the new environment. He’s even adjusted to the part of it that completely boggles my mind: the sleeping arrangements.

Cooper’s room is made up of kids from about 13-20 months old, so these are definitely kids who aren’t old enough to be considered pre-schoolers. In fact, I doubt that any have graduated into a big-kid bed. However, at this place, the babies take naps not in cribs, but on mats. Little naptime mats, which are common in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms, are being used for kids who have just started walking. How does that even work?

Cooper’s a nut. He flings himself around his crib when he sleeps, and I’ll often go in to check on him, only to find a foot sticking out between the bars, or a tuft of hair, or both of his arms. Yet somehow, he manages to just go lie down on the floor and sleep for like two hours. This honestly defies all physics and logic to me. Despite the fact that I get daily reports that say he sleeps, I still can’t wrap my head around it.

What I can wrap my head around? The illnesses that we’ve been passing back and forth for the past two weeks. Cooper caught a pretty bad stomach bug, of which I had a milder version. Then he brought home a cold that affected both Luke and me, with the worst of it landing on my first day of work. Then, Cooper ended up with a 104 degree temperature and his first-ever ear infection, which he, never one to do anything half-assed, made a double. So, two infected ears, snot, diarrhea, and a jacket sent to the cleaners after a spectacular Pedialyte and banana vomiting incident. So basically, February? LIVIN’ THE DREAM, BABY!

He's still pretty cute even with snot pouring down his face