

Childcare is my passion. I have been caring for children and learning about child development for the past ten years. I have worked as a center-based care provider, a private nanny, a mother (by far the hardest of them all!), and a family child care provider. I have just received my family child care license. This blog documents the process of setting up my family child care.
In the afternoon the kids enjoyed the swings.
Katie gives Josephine a ride . . . Josephine looks blissful.
Later Katie helped me to finally erect the bamboo teepee for our garden. Things are starting to come together for spring. We hope to eventually grow some green beans on it.
Here's the garden . . . a work in progress.
Later on Katie and Ryan helped me to freshen up the front planters with new plants.
Lucas ran outside to get a look at it.
Katie created an outdoor scene with a flower.
And Josephine just enjoyed the feel of the fingerpaint and watching the colors mix on the paper . . .
Later on Katie gave Josephine lessons in cursive handwriting.
And then of course we had to shut all the curtains, turn off all the lights, and test them out.
And then at the end of the day, I found a perfect little mud pie in the back yard. It made me smile. I just had to take a photo.
Here Claire and Josephine are filling up little pots with dirt and grass seeds. In about a week there should be some beautiful spring-like grass.
And then later in the day we made soap. I had a bunch of leftover orange soap from a previous pumpkin soap stint, so we made shapes using ice cube trays, and then we buried some plastic insects as well--reminiscent of amber.