Meet Baby Jones

It is an exciting time here at Jones Headquarters as Avery is preparing to begin preschool at The Goddard School on Monday! We’re going to start him off slowly, just 2 half-days a week for now, to avoid shell shock. This will be the first time he’ll be left with others besides us and his lola so we’re being gentle.

I hope his first couple of days at school won’t be as catastrophic as the time I tried to leave him at my gym’s daycare. He lasted all of 2.5 minutes in the room without me despite a very promising start. He was crying so loudly and was just so completely inconsolable that the sitter had no choice but to come get me.

Yes, yes, I know those two situations are different. At my gym’s daycare, the sitters are also the gym’s trainers/desk-minders who are chosen for the task through a little eeny, meeny, miny, moe and who probably provoke the children in their care anyway so they can say to the parents, “Oh, time to get your child because he/she is crying for you.” What do they care? To them, it’s just one less brat for them to babysit.

In stark contrast, however, we have the preschool whose staff all have received or in the process of receiving formal education in early childhood development and education. The curriculum is pretty impressive and includes math, science, arts, dance, dramatic play - even yoga! We toured the facility today and it is clean, organized and seems conducive to learning. And two other big pluses: the school is only about 15 minutes from our house AND the teacher who’ll be teaching Avery’s group takes horse-riding lessons from our neighbor, Deb! Yep, it’s a small world.

Melvin and I strongly feel that Avery is ready for this kind of learning and socialization now. I mean everyday, you can just see his hunger and determination to learn about new things. Although I think we do a great job on our own with teaching him, there’s no doubt that socialization with children in his age group will only enhance his learning.

I’m so excited for our lil’ man. Can’t hardly wait for Monday!

BTW, I don’t consider myself a good (blog) writer at all, but if this post seems especially rough, it’s because I am writing at 3:30 in the morning. Between Avery stirring, Aunt Flo flowing, the cats meowing, and the dog across the street barking, I just couldn’t maintain my sleep.

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

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