Ixchel and her "nest"

Ixchel is in a "nido," which is what they call pre-school/daycares here. She loves it. There are about 40 or 50 kids up through 5 years, but only 5 children in her aula. She loves her teacher Miss Ines. Besides having the opportunity to play with other kids, her vocabulary has taken off (I'm sure it's the age, too). The nido is only 3 blocks from our home, so Alex takes her and picks her up (from 8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) every day. I try to leave about that time to go downtown to work in the archives and I get back about 4:30, so Alex watches her until I get back and then I usually take her to a park or something until dinner time.