Mid-flight refueling

For a few weeks now, perhaps because he enjoys walking so much, ec often wants to get down from my lap in the middle of drinking his bottle.  He will walk around a bit then return to me and stand with his mouth open, so I give him more milk as he stands there.  At first this made me think of someone hand-feeding a new-born calf or other animal, with the calf leaning his head back as he takes the bottle.  When K saw ec do this, he called it "mid-flight refueling," which is a good description.  Instead of drinking his 4 1/2 ounces in 8-10 minutes, ec can take much longer now.  I try to just go along with him as he tries new things, exerts his will, moves around.  Sometimes he does just sit still and drinks it all up at once.  Yesterday he only took one bottle, instead of his normal three.

Probably we should be glad he is changing his ways because when he starts going to daycare he needs to be off the bottle, drinking from a cup.  E found out this week that there will be an opening at the center on April 24 and ec is in line for that spot, so I expect he will begin going three days a week the first of May.  Now I need to figure out what would work well for me, how I want to spend time with the children, perhaps even IF I want to continue.  Many permutations of three days at school and two days at home for each child are possible.  If they both went on the same three days and I had both of them the other two, I'd have three free days, but having both is much harder than just one.  I'm leaning towards each of them alone one day then both on one day, with two days off.  Since our house is not child-proofed (except the blue room) it is not as easy to have ec here, at least not spending time downstairs.  But es could be here, so that would be nice, allowing me to cook and such.  I believe it would be good for ec to have time by himself as he adjusts to daycare and all the new situations that will bring.