daycare

I had to redo our hand print picture to add Kaiden's.  Red is Jason, Orange is mine (Krista), Yellow is both boys.  Kaiden is on the left (1 month of age), Connor is on the right (1 month of age).  I love the pinky fingers together.  Shows that their fingers are about the same length, but Kaiden's hand (and everything about Kaiden) is just chunkier than Connor was.  On a side note the hands are suppose to resemble a flame.

Moose!  We call Kaiden Moose because of his stocky size or Moose drool because he's always drooling (and that's Jason's favorite beer "Moose Drool")  His newest nickname that Jason calls him though is Home Slice.  I have no idea where he came up with that name.
Today was Kaiden's first day at daycare.  I return to nursing school for my last semester in a week and since he's spent just about every day since birth glued to my side I thought it might be a good idea to do a trial run before he's in daycare all day long.  So, today he was there for 3 hours.  After Connor and I dropped him off at daycare we ran a few errands... post office, grocery shopping and then lunch (and playing) at McDonald's.  Connor kept telling me he missed his little brother.  I felt a little bit lost without him too.  After 3 hours I got a phone call from the daycare that he wouldn't drink from the bottle.  Cheyenne had tried for 45 minutes and he kept pushing the bottle away and trying to nurse.  Hmm...  I've been cutting back on nursing him from 9:00-4:00 and only giving him a bottle with formula during that time in hopes of prepping him (and my body) for next week when I start school.  But I just started doing that this week.  Prior to that he was 95% breast fed... with only the occasional formula bottle when I didn't have any pumped milk when we were in public.  Other than not wanting to drink formula he did great though.  Each baby has their own crib/play pen to sleep in and he slept for 2 hours.  He was the only baby there today though... so, he got 100% of the attention.  This won't always be the case, since there will be 7 babies there in September.

My adorable Moose... with his stuffed moose

Notice the drool... yep, that's my little Moose Drool

two of his favorite chew toys stuffed animals... Moose and Alligator

My big guy standing on his own (with the assistance of the pillow against his back)

Dropping Kaiden off for his first day at East Lake Childcare Center

Connor was in this room as an infant too... although they remodeled since he was there.

Lauren and Kaiden

Cheyenne and Kaiden

Cheyenne made this during his visit to mark Kaiden's first day at daycare

art by Connor... butterfly