Our little toddler

Iris started transitioning to the young toddler room of our day care this week. Here's her first daily report on how she did yesterday (click to view it larger):to sum up: she's adjusting really well & pretty happy to be out with the big kids where she can crawl all over and explore, rather than in the baby room where most of the other kids aren't crawling yet.

She's progressing better on the transition than mom & dad. We were told that she needs: real shoes (she's been wearing leather soled Robeez, which aren't good for playing outside when the ground is wet), a heavier jacket (she was wearing her Red Sox hoodie yesterday--not weather proof either) and lined nylon play pants, so she can crawl around outside without trashing her clothes (those are loaners she's wearing in the photo below because hers got soaked at playtime)

So there we were, shopping for shoes on the way home from work last night. Poor baby was in her stocking feet when we got to the shoe store. The sales lady was like "Cha-Ching! A sure sale just walked thru my door" Here she is in her new kicks, which she does not like very much--too heavy & stiff for her I guess, but she'll get used to them pretty soon. We hope so anyway because Irene and I both think they're really cute on her.