We made it

Well, Brady's first day of preschool was yesterday and we made it through it! Whew. We woke him up early so that I could feed him and we could get him dressed and ready to go when MrKLB needed to leave for work. He was not very happy to be woken up from a nice deep sleep, but he did manage to eat and we got him out the door on time! When we put him in the car I kissed him goodbye and it was only then that I started to cry. I didn't think I would, but I did. MrKLB gave me a big hug and then they drove away. I did cry for a few minutes, but then I decided to reward myself for the 12 weeks of hard work with a nice little nap before I started actually doing my work. It was nice to have a nap where I wasn't worried about whether Brady would wake up or need me.

Anyway, work went okay. I'm easing back into it. I missed Brady a lot so I gave the school a call around noon to see how he was doing and if he had been eating and napping. I was so glad that I called because they said he was doing great and it made me feel a lot better. He had taken his entire bottle at 9am and was eating again when I called. He had even had a couple of small naps. So, I did manage to relax a bit. Later I got an email from the director with some photos that they had taken of Brady. It was really nice of them and brightened my day. I went to pick him up around 4pm and he was hanging out in the bouncy chair looking at the other babies. Everyone kept saying what a happy baby he is and that he was so alert and listened during story time. I could tell he was tired, though, and he ended up sleeping the whole way home.

All in all, the day went pretty well. I missed him terribly and am not ready to start working again, but I'm happy to know that he is doing well at school. Hopefully this will keep up. We'll have a full week next week and I'll be back in the office 3 days, so that will be the true test of how our new schedule is going to work.

I uploaded most of the photos from yesterday to Brady's blog, but since this is really my blog I'll add a couple of Brady and me: