Tale of a Turnip and Two Daycares

Your baby's skeleton is changing from soft cartilage to bone, and the umbilical cord — her lifeline to the placenta — is growing stronger and thicker. Your baby weighs 5 ounces now (about as much as a turnip), and she's around 5 inches long from head to bottom. She can move her joints, and her sweat glands are starting to develop. YAY! The baby is working up a sweat. We are trying not to or at least not sweat and worry over inconsequential stuff. I had a major (hormonally helped) melt down this weekend stressing about all the things going on in our lives but feel much better now...crying can be cathartic.

Some of you have been writing to ask about the daycare's that we were looking at, wanting more details so here you go: There don't seem to be a lot of places that offer infant care but we were looking specifically at something that would be easy for me to get the baby to on public transportation. Fruit and Flower is about five blocks from work (although not on the public transportation route so it would take a little bit of walking). It is very structured, very cute, with a impressive outdoor area for an urban school. The draw backs are that the waiting list is really long and it does not have a flexible schedule; you are either full time or 1/2 days. We went on a tour with with 4 other couples/individuals (very upper class, very professional yuppie...we felt a little out of place although it was amusing to watch one of the men try to figure out what Taylor was in terms of gender!) . We put ourselves on the wait list. The second daycare, St. James we thought would just be a back up. One of the embryologists and one of the physicians have their children there and really like it. We really ended up liking it a lot. We had a private tour and although it wasn't as pretty, it seemed to be a really loving environment with a great flexible schedule...and yes, we were very clear that no doctrine is taught it is just housed in the church. So we have a deposit down for a spot in April. We will just see what happens. St. James is on the streetcar line and it takes about 10 minutes for me to get there from work.

The thought of daycare just stresses me out too...what doesn't lately! But at least there are some options.

Also...we are still trying to think of name options that are gender neutral. We originally thought Greer (but given Taylor's difficulty saying it and that it rhymes with queer we got rid of it). We have Drew (after our fabulous friend Andy), Rowen, Avery, and Emerson on the list. In the last week we were talking about Grayson, Graden, Greeley, Emry, Embry...any thoughts?