Friday, May 22, 2009

Dani Daycare

Our house got pretty busy on Tuesday. I had agreed weeks ago to watch my friend's little boy Logan for her while she had to attend an all day training for her job. Logan was scheduled to arrive at 8. At 7am I got a call from a gal in my ward saying that her daycare worker had called in sick and was wondering if I would be willing to watch her daughter Ava from 7 to 4pm. I cleared it with my friend, and took them both!

It actually ended up being a good day. All the kids got along well and the day went pretty fast. I definitely could not do daycare on a regular basis, and I only had four kids! 

We started out with breakfast for all: eggs and toast:

Then we had lots of play time, listened to music and danced with instruments, had snacks, made butterflies, and then had lunch.




Then was glorious nap time. All the kids napped without a problem!!! I felt extremely lucky and enjoyed a couple of hours of quiet time. Ava's dad got off work early and came right around 3 to pick her up. Then Ryan and Hayley came over just after 5pm to collect Logan and stayed for pizza and the basketball game. It was exhausting, but a nice change up to our day. 

7 comments:

Hayley Hatch said...

Thank you so much for providing Dani's Daycare! I know Logan had fun with his friends! And thank you for allowing us to come over for pizza and bball. Hopefully it wasn't too much Hatches for one day ;)

Anonymous said...

dani, where the heck do you get all cute crafty ideas eh??? I love them and i know soph would too!
~jess

Pieces of me... said...

Sounds like an eventful day! You're such a sweetheart. I loved the butterfly craft by the way, I'll have to try that one with the kids.

Sumo @ Sumo's Sweet Stuff said...

You should start a business! :)

Dyan said...

Glad you survived with 4 young kids...it gives me hope! :) Looks like they were all in the same age range so I'm sure they had fun with all day playmates for a change!

Unknown said...

Whew, all that before lunch! No wonder they took such great naps. Your amazing!

Trishelle said...

Seriously, you are Wonder Woman! I'll bet you totally made their day! What an amazing woman/friend/neighbor/mommy you are!

It's a wonderful thing to know your child is safe and happy even when you can't be with them. It's a real talent to be able to do that for people.