Yes that's a swiffer tied to him. My plans to have him clean the floor were foiled by his bladder. Serves me right really . . . but it was a good plan!
Today was Luca's first day of day care!!! I was very lucky to find a place here in Montreal, and on top of that, a government subsidized one. It's meant to be a temporary spot while a kid is away on vacation, but I'm hoping it will last or it's likely to take me another 2 weeks to find another one. It's run by a very nice woman and her daughter, out of there apartment. It's right between our neighbourhood and the area that Fabien and I work in. There are 6 kids there ranging from Luca's age to 3 years. Today he stayed from 9-12. I'm hoping to leave him there from 8:30-2 on average - after the initial week or two of getting him used to it. He seemed to not mind the experience but he has to get onto their schedule for naps and they seem to take fewer naps than he would like. He would have liked to sleep at 11 I think but he made it another hour until I picked him up and then he crashed really hard! I can now take some ballet classes to prepare for Nutcracker in November and do a few hours work at the pilates studio. It's great, I'm really ready to get my life back a bit.
I also started French classes again. I'm really enjoying them. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights from 6-8. Great teacher, and it's a block from my house, super convenient.
As you can see in this video, Luca is on the edge of crawling. We went to a party on Saturday that was full of kids his age that could crawl. The crawling part of this video was shot on Sunday when he was practicing all the moves he saw the other kids do! Another reason I want him to spend time in daycare. He just obverses so much from other kids. It's crazy the connection they have.
Luca also LOVES to stand as you can see in the video. He'll stand against the banister for 1/2 and hour! He just holds on for dear life. He's moving more now than when I shot the video a couple days ago. Now he can move a couple bars either way. I am wondering where I'm going to put everything that he'll be able to reach when he can walk or pull up to standing!
Also, Luca is experiencing more and more bumps and bruises. He almost always has a red mark on his forehead from bashing a toy into himself! He's fallen off our bed once (which was scarier for me than for him) and somehow got a nasty looking scratch on his chin. Sometimes he crawls under the coffee table and cracks his noggin trying to look up! Little monkey! I know, I know, it's only the beginning!
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