Steam coming from my ears!

We've been having a few 'concerns' with the day care centre recently.  Just found out that they have never been putting any nappy barrier cream on Mia when they change her nappy!  They said that if we didn't leave any cream in the draw with the nappies then they didn't put any on. I could not believe it.  They never once communicated that with me.  My understanding was that if we wanted any 'different' cream putting on, then we should be leaving it in the draw with the nappies.  

I'm so annoyed with them.  I wonder how many other children at the nursery don't have any cream put on either.  I have never heard of such a thing.  All babies have barrier cream put on, I have never spoken to anyone who doesn't put it on.  So we have been leaving cream for them to use on Mia for the past week, but Mia came home in a boys nappy the other day - so obviously they weren't using her cream or her nappies at that time!

I am having a chat with the centre director tonight.  I have other concerns as well because there seems to be a lot of casual staff recently.  We don't get introduced to them, they don't speak to us and more importantly they don't know Mia.  So I am worried that the standard of care has gone down.  We both went to pick Mia up early last week.  We could hear her crying from outside and she was still crying by the time we got to the gate.  She was sat on the floor with her arms outstretched wanting to be picked up.  I'm not sure what had happened, maybe she had fallen over or had been pushed.  But anyway, one of the 'new casuals' only started to make a move to pick Mia up once she noticed that there were parents (us) trying to get in through the gate.  It was heartbreaking to see Mia on the floor and no one doing anything about it.  I just picked her up and left as quickly as we had arrived.  I was fuming and felt too emotional to say anything calmly to them.  Mia cried all the way home.

They still can't get her nap times right either.  She only had 45 mins sleep in the morning yesterday, so consequently Mia was extremely tired again.   

Anyway, hopefully we'll sort it all out.  I'll probably start to look for somewhere else for Mia to go unless they can get staff who are more permanent.

Mia's vocabulary is really coming on.  She was saying 'paint' yesterday.  And loves 'juice', she says it all the time.  We've had to put a lock on the fridge door as she was starting to pull out the milk and orange cartons, as well as a myriad of food items.

At the weekend, we bought her a little "Dora the Explorer" sofa.  She loves it and sits on it with her teddies and dolls.  She is really interacting with them a lot.   She gives them cuddles, feeds them food, tries to put a dummy in their mouth and gives them her drinks as well.  It's hilarious.