Day care

well louis like being around kids who are a year or two older than him but yeah, more of a gap than that and it's harder to relate.

starting evie back up in day care again next week, just three days a week. didn't have much time to arrange day care, and everywhere near us has long waiting lists (some of which we've been on for a long time). then we found a place within walking distance with availability, which is also cheaper than most of the day cares in our (yuppie-ish) neighborhood, kind of suspicious of it just because it seems too good to be true and they only have a couple of reviews on yelp. but sarah checked it out, said it seems fine, we're going to stay on waiting lists for the fancier places, and we don't have a ton of options at this point so i hope it's ok.

We're considering doing a nanny share for the two days a week we need in the fall, but it is a bit pricier...

today was "princess or superheros" day at evie's daycare, with a strong implication that the girls were supposed to dress up as princesses while the boys were supposed to dress up as superheros. i feel lame that we didn't find out about this in time to subvert the system and go out and buy her a superhero costume and instead just sent her to daycare in a leotard and tutu. :(

It's not really a daycare rant, unfortunately, but I hate the gender split that starts from birth. It's everywhere. Clothes, toys (why is there any need for blue or pink guitars or drum kits?!) games, even kids parties - one party we went to the entertainer had the kids introduce themselves - boys were Pirate *insert name here* girls were Princess *insert name here* Most of the parties Aidan's been invited to have been just boys parties - the boys just have boys, the girls just invite girls. It's so saddening.

I got riled by a radio ad for (?) Huggies the other day: boys' are blue with cars and trucks and were "cool", girls' are pink with princesses and "pretty". They're crap-catchers, people!

finally got a call from one of the fancier day cares about an opening, we're excited because it's literally right behind our house and has better healthy food options and seems more education-focused than where she's going now. but we somehow fall into the highest bracket on their sliding household income scale and it would cost almost twice as much per week, which we can't really swing (would be like $600 more per month). makes me feel shitty. like we're stuck with a mediocre day care because we make too much money to catch a break on the good day care. and we don't even make that much money!

guess we're going to not going to bother with trying to figure out how to pay for the switch and just try to adjust our attitudes about the current day care while also looking ahead to possibly finding a better preschool for when she turns 3.

You have my sympathy. Daycare is the worst.