0 1st Week Work and Daycare Update

What a week!

It's refreshing to be back in a strict routine. I managed to get to work 5 minutes early on Friday as opposed to 25 minutes late on Monday. Success!

I had a decent week at work. I was mostly busy so that helped me not worry about Riley and Madi at daycare. I did call in Monday afternoon to check on Riley though. Just to make sure he was taking the bottle and he was!

Riley had a superb week. He mostly slept. He's a great sleeper. He took all but one bottle but only because he wanted to go back to sleep instead of drink. He comes home smelling like the daycare and for some reason it really bothers me. Needless to say he's been getting a bath just about every night.

Madison had a good week too. She went to Pen Mar Park on Monday, Northside Pool on Wednesday, and the Antietam Dairy on Thursday. Next week is full of fun too! Unfortunately she's also been having an attitude problem and giving me such a hard time in the mornings. She'll be going to bed this week at 8:00 pm instead of 9:00 pm.

I'm excited about the weekend even though it's full of things to do. Sunday afternoon is my 10 year High School reunion picnic and today Patrick is taking Madi to go see Cars 2 with Kevin, Lori, and Lucas then we'll be doing some yard work.

A couple of recent pictures:

Here's a new video  of Riley! The other videos are at the bottom of our home page.

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0 Back to work and daycare!

Well it's officially that time: back to work.

I've been home since April 13th, delivered Riley on April 25th and will be returning to work on June 20th. Riley will be 8 weeks old!

I'm so grateful to the time I've had to stay at home getting ready for his birth and now the 8 weeks of watching him grow. I'm sad to have to leave him with strangers, even if it is at a very nice daycare.

The tasks we'll all have to overcome this week seem monstrous at the moment.

Me: Leaving my baby boy and little girl! Pumping! Working! Driving! Waking up (and staying up) early! (with NO coffee)
Riley: No mama for a whole day! Bottles?!!? (he still isn't taking one!) New people and a new place.
Madison: Making new friends and meeting new teachers.

The reward of picking them both up on Monday is going to be phenomenal. Only to have to turn around and do it again on Tuesday.

Riley is really going to have a terrible time if he doesn't buckle down and accept a bottle. I've been trying most of this past week getting him to take the ones I bought (Breastflow -- good for switching back and forth between breast and bottle) but I'm thinking I should have started a lot sooner or maybe I need to buy a different brand. He acts like the nipple is too firm. I'm going to look at different brands today to see if he'll accept something different.

I just hope he accepts one on Monday!

Madison is super excited about going to Noah's Ark. I have no doubt that this transition will go smoothly for her. She has a field trip the very first day! She gets to go to the pool every Wednesday and even a trip to the Antietam Dairy this Thursday!

Riley has his 2 month check up this coming week as well. I'm excited to see how much he's weighting now. He's such a big boy!

He'd been having fits every night for the past few weeks. Right around 7-8 pm he'd get super fussy and eventually vomits all over me. I've stopped drinking coffee this week and so far it seems to have helped. He hasn't vomited for the past 3 days. I was getting headaches w/o the coffee but that seems to have stopped just today. I miss drinking it so I may grab some decaf while at the store today.

Wish us luck for this week! We'll need it!
Until next week....

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