which somehow got packed in a box marked "Christmas lights."

Well, at least that makes some logical sense. It's all cords, right?

Sympathies on the rest of it. If you've paid for the daycare anyway it seems to me it would be wise to at least see how Dillo takes to it; you can always pull him out if you decide he needs a little more time, but surely it would help to only have to wrangle the one child rather than two.