Nursery hunting

I went to have a look at a nursery in North Sydney today – well over here it is called Long Day Care Centre. I didn’t think it was that great. The people were nice enough but they only have two other babies the same age as Mia and I’m not even sure they would be attending on the same days, so she might be playing on her own, which defeats the object of her going to nursery in the first place. It felt a bit strange to be thinking about leaving Mia in the hands of complete strangers. She has never been looked after by anyone other than me or Damien, so not sure how she would take it all.

I was shown around, they even had cots so that the babies can have a sleep during the day. The woman said the carers can see the babies asleep through the window – it just made me feel sad thinking about Mia asleep all on her own in that room. I just wonder what they would do if she was crying and wouldn’t stop?? Does that ever happen and if so, are the parents ever told?

On my way out, I ended up putting my foot through some timber flooring that must have been rotten. It was on the main path on the way in and out!! Wasn’t impressed with that. I only slightly grazed my foot but can you imagine if it had been a child? I had already completely embarrassed myself my making a right dog’s ear of trying to get me and the pushchair through two gates! Don’t ask.

The bus back to Manly took 45 minutes but Mia kept the surfer dudes and dudettes sat opposite us amused with her tongue sticking out trick. They kept doing it back to her and she would stick her tongue out again. We were sat at the front, so the whole of the bus were looking at what was going on.

I meant to say yesterday, whilst we were walking along Manly beach there was a warning of a confirmed shark sighting and everyone was told to get out of the water! Not everyone did though, still plenty of surfers just carried on surfing. I think the shark sighting was just a little bit north from where we were.

Oh and guess what?? Mia has grown another little tooth! So now we are 7 and counting. This one joins the other two gnashers on the bottom. She’s not even 11 months yet.

We spent the late afternoon on the beach at Manly Cove as it wasn’t too sunny for Mia. She was more interested in trying to chase after the seagulls. I put her little shoes on and off she went, I hardly had hold of her. She seemed to enjoy the sound of her shoes scraping on the floor though.

We are going to Oceanworld tomorrow to see the nurse sharks, most of the kids are back at school, so hopefully it should be quiet.