I worked through the weekend and up until 10 PM last night to get an almost 100 page document delivered. My brain feels like it’s going to explode. I never want to work over a weekend again! I would only work when Lucy was napping or sleeping (I may have worked for an hour or two while Shaun played with her) but that meant that NOTHING got done at home. It was just crazy and not a good scene. The document is delivered. I reviewed it with the client and now hopefully things won’t be so hectic.

I got some really sad news today. In the grand scheme of things it’s not horrible but it’s sad for all parties involved nonetheless. Lucy’s main teacher is leaving the day care center June 12th 🙁 She and her husband were able to buy a house out in Tracy which is over an hour and a half away. I’m happy that she was able to buy a house but I’m oh so sad that we’re no longer going to have Ms. Azar. I got all teary when she told me-she did too. She’s worked there for almost 7 years and knows all the kids. I know she’s going to miss them so much and I’m going to miss her. Lucy is too-big time. Lucy gets excited when we go to daycare. Yesterday she even let out an excited scream when we entered and Ms. Azar is a big part of that. There are other teachers that she loves too. This is just going to be hard. Any ideas on what I should get her as a going away gift?

Seriously. Life is INSANE. Work is insane and when I get home I just want to put the computer away and not think about anything. Sucky part is that I have to work this weekend which really just blows but I have a deadline and a deadline is a deadline and I have to meet it, right? If I want to keep my job I do.

We’re trying to plan a family vacation for August or September. That is SO exciting to me! We’re talking about either San Diego or Hawaii. Shaun’s a fan of San Diego and I’m a fan of Hawaii. I have a friend who lives in Hawaii who owns a house cleaning business. She cleans the vacation rentals. She can get us a condo with a kitchen and laundry that is right across the street from the beach for $110 a night. Plus, Lucy is free to fly until she’s 2. Once she turns 2 we have to pay for a ticket for her. I really hope this happens. I think Hawaii would be so great. Plus it would be a nice family vacation that we thought of and that we’re doing just for us. Since we have family all over the place, many of our vacations are spent visiting family. We love our family and love visiting them but I think a tropical vacation just sounds like fun. Hopefully it’ll pan out.

I think that’s all I have. I know I need to post about Mother’s Day and I promise I will, it’s just literally been go GO GO all week. And that gets a big BOO in my book.

Mother’s Day was FABULOUS! Wonderful, perfect, just great! I’m going to post more later tonight when I can do it justice.

I also forgot to eat lunch yesterday. Most people are probably thinking, “So, you forgot to eat, what’s the big deal?” but for me it’s a huge deal. I’m normally one of those people who is very concerned with when the next meal is and what I can have but yesterday I had breakfast at 9:30 and then I had a Mother’s Day frozen yogurt at about 2 and then at 7 Shaun said “We didn’t eat lunch-I’m starving.” I said “We didn’t? I don’t feel hungry. We really didn’t have lunch?” He got all excited and said, “It’s happening! You’re not as obsessed with food-this is a good thing. You should eat lunch but in the 5 years I’ve known you you’ve never forgotten to eat. We should write this day down.” It was really very cute that Shaun was so excited for me. I know that I need to eat lunch and I need to not forget to eat but the fact that it wasn’t paramount in my day was a HUGE DEAL. I just hope I’m not jinxing it by writing about it.

Okay, off to work!

My parents arrived last night for a visit.  Shaun and I are staying on the couch and we gave them our bed.  That way Lucy can stay in her room with her regular nightly routine-it seems to be working out nicely.

I’m working from home today while they hang out with Lucy.  I think we’ll maybe venture to the park later this afternoon once I get everything done.

I do want to post later about boosting your supply-I think all of my tips (that I’ve gotten from various sources) could really help Cynthia (and anyone else who is struggling with supply).  I have a great group of breastfeeding ladies that I talk with and wow has it helped.  Support groups are wonderful!

Do you know that I’m actually considering breastfeeding longer than a year?  I’m not going to pump past a year (it is a PAIN) but I’m thinking about continuing to breastfeed in the morning and night.  We’ll see how I feel about this once we get closer to that point but before she was born I was a little freaked out by breastfeeding.  I know I wanted to do it and I knew that I wanted to do it until she was 1 but it creeped me out a bit.  Now I feel like it’s the most natural thing in the world and I’m not creeped out at all.  HOWEVER, I will not have a 4 year old attached to my boob.  I do understand now why woman get upset when they wean.  It’s like your baby isn’t your baby anymore-she’s all grown up!  Thankfully I have 4 and half more months until we hit a year.  I can’t believe that Lucy is 4 and half months away from being a year old!  It goes by so quickly.  Man, I thought life flew by fast before-once you have a kid it’s like you blink and they’re completely different.
She’s sleeping right now so I’ll need to post her daily picture later.  I think I forgot to take one yesterday too.  Boy am I ever a flake or what? 😉

Work has been crazy. Home has been crazy.  I just want to burrow under the covers and sleep.  My parents arrive here tomorrow so I don’t foresee any burrowing in my future. My brain is so dead I don’t even know what to write. Not very fun, am I?

I can show you pictures 🙂

Yesterday’s Pictures:

Today’s Pictures:

We tried Happy Baby Organic Puffs. They are like Cheerios but dissolve faster and are organic and all that good stuff. Lucy loved that they were on her tray and started trying to pick them up and was quite perplexed when they stuck to her. Once she got them in her mouth she didn’t know what to think:

She kinda came around:

I feel like this should be a post on www.lucytitus.com. Maybe it’ll go there too. Who knows?

Man, I wish the weekends were three days long!  But I know that if they were I’d be wishing for four days.

Yesterday, while Shaun was mountain biking, Lucy and I went down to Richard and Elaina’s for breakfast and then to watch Elaina’s soccer game.  We had a blast!  Lucy LOVES balls and loved watching soccer!

She sat up the entire 90 minutes we were there!

I was going from 8 am (Shaun let me sleep in!) until 9 pm yesterday.  I literally did not stop all day.  It was an exhausting but good day.

Here’s today’s picture!

My two favorite people 🙂

Things are going really well and I’ve been really happy.  I have to say that the last 7 months have been  happiest of my life, they’ve been hard too but oh so happy.  I really don’t have much else to say right now.  🙂

We’ve had a really chill day and I don’t feel like we got anything done.  We went to breakfast this morning and then to our local toystore to get Lucy a light-up drum, ball, and teether.  She really doesn’t have many toys and Shaun decided she needed an interactive toy for sitting up.  She loves it:

We also did some shopping for us today.  Shaun got some much needed new shoes and I got the make-up that I’ve needed for over a week now.  It’s 6:30 and Lucy needs some dinner and then bed.  I plan to make green beans, peas, prunes, and blueberries tonight.

Here’s her daily picture:

Although this one is pretty cute:

This one too!

Can you tell I like the Eye-Fi?

We got the Eye-Fi installed last night.  It was doubtful for a bit whether it would work or not.  We got the card that has Geo-Tagging capabilities-Shaun really wanted this for his mountain biking pictures-and that card only comes in 4 GB.  Our camera shut down when the 4 GB card got put into it and we thought we were toast.  Then our camera said “Card Reader Error.” Well…dang.  Super techy husband to the rescue!  Shaun was able to find a firmware update for our camera that would allow it to take a 4 GB card.  He just saved the update to one of our other memory cards, stuck it in the camera and there you go-our camera now takes 4 GB cards!  Technology (and my husband) are cool!

Thus, I give you Lucy’s daily picture(s)!

Shaun thinks a daily picture is a great idea too so hopefully we can keep this up.

Last night I was walking home and this was parked in front of my house:

Sweet ride, eh?

Did anyone see The Office last night? Oh.My.God. It was ridiculously funny. Shaun and I laughed out loud at least 15 times. Between watching Survivor, The Office, and getting the Eye Fi all set up we didn’t get to bed until 11 last night-that’s late for this Mommy!

I had another nightmare filled night-boo.  If this doesn’t stop I’m going to schedule a visit with my therapist.  We’ll see how tonight goes.  I know that I’m really stressed at work and home life is crazy (just because taking care of Lucy and the house and my husband takes all my time) but I don’t feel like these two things should be causing these major anxiety dreams.

Speaking of home life being crazy, my awesome husband was super helpful this morning. Lucy woke up at 5:10 to eat and didn’t want to go back to sleep after I fed her. I brought her into bed with us to try and get her to fall back asleep and it worked for about 30 minutes but at 6 she wanted to be up.  Shaun got up with her and got her ready for the day.  He let me “sleep in” until 6:45.  He even got her bottles ready to go and put the bag on top of her “Daily Communication” paper that we have to fill out for daycare everyday.  He was then playing with her and had a little finger puppet on and the finger puppet was telling Lucy how she is lucky to have a Mommy that works so hard and does so much for her.  I’m getting all teary writing about it.  Seriously?  How sweet.  I really do have an awesome husband.  He knows just what to do to make me feel appreciated and loved.

The Weekend

It supposed to rain all weekend.  BOO.  I still need to go to Bare Essentials to get my make-up. That’s the one thing from my to do list for last weekend that didn’t get done since Lucy was sick.  Maybe I’ll go to the mall all by myself.  I think this will be a great weekend to finish our baby proofing.  She’s starting to get more and more mobile and inquisitive.  We need to change out the electric outlet covers and brace the furniture to the wall and then we’ll be done.

Yeah….Lucy was sitting in Shaun’s lap and pulled herself to a standing postion last night.  Before we know it, she’ll be doing that on EVERYTHING.

We didn’t get the Eye-Fi set up last night because I was dead tired.  Shaun went mountain biking after work and didn’t get home until 7:50.  That meant that I did the whole bedtime routine by myself which isn’t a big deal it’s just more difficult.  By the time I got dinner done and we had eaten it was 8:45 and I was ready for bed.  We were in bed by 9 and lights were out by 9:15 (get your minds out of the gutter-we were reading).  My little superstar sleeper slept until 6:15 this morning so I got 9 hours of sleep last night.  WOO and HOO!  Of course I had crazy stress dreams all night long but oh well, at least I got to sleep for 9 hours.

Even though the Eye-Fi did not get set up, I still took my first daily picture of Lucy with my phone.  She was so smiley this morning-see?

She’s started giving kisses on command!!! Last night I asked her to give Mommy a kiss and I got a big wet slobbery one. We played a game where I would kiss her and say “Mommy gives Lucy a kiss. Will Lucy give Mommy a kiss?” And then she’d kiss me and I’d say “OH THANK YOU!” and she’d crack up. We did that for about 10 minutes last night. I was covered in Lucy slobber and it was so worth it!

I had the realization last night that since I’ve been back to work (4 months now) I haven’t done anything for myself without Lucy. Breastmilk is such a precious resource that I never leave her with Daddy and a bottle. Plus I miss her so much while I work that I don’t want to leave her alone when I have the chance. But, I think I need to get over this and leave her with Daddy for a few hours one weekend. I do need some “me” time and the train ride to work, work, grocery shopping, and cooking don’t really count. Maybe I’ll take a babystep and go for a run this weekend all.by.myself. I do have an issue in that I don’t know what I’d go do. Sad, huh?

Time to start brainstorming.

Lucy was much better this morning and has been doing great at daycare today. Yay for that!

My Eye-Fi card was at work when I got in today-YIPEE!!! Now it won’t be such a pain to upload pictures.  I’m hoping to take a picture of Lucy everyday before daycare.  Who knows if that will happen.  Some days I’m so short on time that I don’t thing it will but it’s a good goal.

Hopefully tomorrow I’ll be back on the blog in the morning, tutorial/informational post in the afternoon.  I have pictures that I need to upload about sterilizing bottles.  As I was taking the pictures I was thinking, “This is dumb-everyone knows how to do this” and then I remembered that I frantically googled how to do it when I had to do it the first time.  So, look for that soon!