Adventures in Daycare and Teething...

Sounds like fun, right? Not so much... Yes, 3 months is early for teething, but Joey and I think that he's probably going through some type of 'pre-teething.' He won't be cutting teeth anytime too soon, but my dad put it best when he said that Oscar might have 'itchy gums.' He's been fussier than usual lately, but we've been trying out Hyland's Teething Tablets (yes, hippie homeopathic drugs) and honestly they seem to make a difference. He's also become quite the drool-master. It's actually kind of gross, but I guess that's what being a baby is all about.

Now what to say about daycare...? I'm heading back to work in mid-July (yikes!) and realized that it was really time we figured out that whole daycare thing. I'm kind of freaked out about it and anticipating having some trouble when I have to leave him all day in the care of someone else, but also looking forward to getting back into a different daily routine. We looked at a number of different places, and fell in love with a home-based daycare called Country Peas (cute, right?). It's one of the VERY few accredited home-based daycares, has a fantastic teacher to kid ratio (1:2.5) and the woman who runs it is awesome. Sadly, it's out off of Ford Rd. and a bit too far from our house :( So we checked out a center called Tutor Time, and ended up liking it way more than we thought we would. They have a better ratio than most centers we saw, affordable (which is relative when speaking about childcare, since nothing is really truly affordable), and we also like their teaching philosophy. We visited, weighed our options, and put a deposit down on Tutor Time. It's much closer to both our house and my parents' houses. Now I just have to work on the idea of not being home with him all the time.

I don't really have photos or videos to go with the title topics, but I do have some fun videos that were taken in the last month: one of Joey conversing with Oscar first thing in the morning (Oscar has become quite vocal and it's super cute); and another of Oscar dancing to a video of the Safety Dance that came on VH1 Classic :) Enjoy.