First day of Daycare

The mother is teary, the day she dreaded has finally arrived! Our little one is starting her daycare / school today.

Most of my family argued that she's too little for starting daycare but I argue she had to start someday. It's not like we are sending her to jail. She'll go play, sleep, play, eat, more play and come home in a few hours. 😅

Can't believe our little one is 14 months and time just flies. If we were in India, she wouldn't start daycare / preschool until 2.5 years but here in Canada, it's a different scene all together.

First the daycares are full and there's years of waiting period here. We got a very good daycare without wait time and they waited for Aarya to complete 14 months, we consider ourselves lucky in this case.

The only challenge is that Gundi hasn't been introduced to English yet. We speak to her in Kundagannada and she knows some English words. It'll be interesting to know how she overcomes this.

Exciting and anxious days ahead!

More, Later.

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