Back in October and November, Andy and I put together a schedule for parental leave. While there's plenty of websites, research, and articles out there that can support each side of the 'stay at home vs day care debate', we knew that the day care would begin someday for Dominic. We just wanted to stay at home as long as we could before day care started up. Some day cares accept babies as young as six months! For us, we opted to stretch out finances and savings to keep Dominic at home until he was at least 3 months old.
Now that it's February, Andy's paternity leave at work is coming to an end. He goes back to work on Monday for the first time since Dominic was born. For Dominic, I think it has been great for him to have the stability of Andy being at home for such a long time. Andy's great parenting has given Dominic lots of attention, taken him out for various excursions during the weekdays, and also resulted in plenty of great parenting experiences.
With Andy going back to work tomorrow, we're doing our final changing of the guard. I staggered my paternity leave to include the first two weeks of February, so I'm officially back on paternity leave. I'm really looking forward to spending time with Dominic at home. Also, my parents will be in town from Wednesday night through next Tuesday which will make the time even more fun. Between my parent's visit, Dominic's 3-month birthday, a trip to Tacoma to see Carly, and a lot more, these next two weeks are sure to go by really fast. Before we know it, we'll have another changing of the guard and Dominic will be transitioning into day care.
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