Wow Tooth fairy good luck getting the leave! That's so Bassackwards. It's AFTER 6 months that you really start needing more and more to take the time to form attachments to the children. The older the child is, the more you need to take that time to have them transition into the family smoothly.
I can't tell you how valuable that 6 weeks my work gave me with Lydia was. I wish I'd been able to have longer actually as 2 of those weeks were spent in China...she is in daycare right now and we've backslid a little. She's having sleep problems again--nowhere near as bad as when we first got her, but we aren't sleeping through the night anymore either! I'm hoping it'll settle down in a couple of weeks once she gets used to the new routine.
While I feel guilty about the daycare thing. (No way around it though.) I feel we're still pretty far pretty fast with Lydia. She's a resilient little girl. She's our little steel magnolia!
