Today I am sporting a fierce 4 day weekend hangover. Not from overindulging (or indulging at all) in spiked cider this Thanksgiving weekend, but from 4 glorious uninterrupted days with my little sweetie, and after 4 days of all-AJ-all-the-time I am missing him like crazy. When the nanny came this morning, he wasn't exactly resistant, but he also didn't crawl to her with the same vigor that he would on a normal week.
This weekend was also fun because we got to see AJ in so many new situations-- at a big Thanksgiving dinner table--where he was almost the loudest one, around other babies--where we stopped him before he could crawl on top of his adorable, but unsuspecting little friend, and at a Christmas 'fair' type thing where 40 Christmas trees nor Santa himself could impress him! So much fun to watch him have these new experiences, and I wish I could introduce him to things like that each and every day.
Has it gotten easier for me since I came back to work in May? Somewhat. Some days I do what I need to do like clockwork, but days like today I still worry. About whether he will go down for his naps ok, whether he will want to be held all day, whether she will recognize the new 'games' he likes to play, like 'roll the tangerine across the room' or 'keep dropping the rubber blocks on the tile'. Those are my favorites too :-)
Monday, November 28, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Baby I'm Amazed
AJ is 9 months old. He is now as old as it took to make him! Its no exaggeration that I am amazed at him every day, and months 7-9 have really been incredible. Just in the past few weeks he has become even more communicative. He mimics us, he does "SO BIG!", he waves bye-bye, and today my heart nearly melted when he gave me a kiss! Well, a "kiss" to AJ is opening his mouth and putting it on my cheek, but still, we have a tiny human who responds with this action when I say "give mommy a kiss" and that totally blows my mind.
Some days I just look at him and think that I don't know what I have done in my life to deserve such happiness. Though I can recall the actions that filled mine and Joe's days before AJ came along, I can't recall what it was like to not feel this love that now overflows my heart. When I get this way, I swear that the sappy pregnancy hormones never actually left me, but I think thats part of what makes a mom a mom.
I just can't wait to see what is next!
Monday, November 7, 2011
weekend warriors
What a weekend! After a full week of dinner meeting for work, I successfully re-introduced myself to AJ this weekend, and it was so much fun! I realize every day what a good kid he is, and it makes me nervous about any future babies; we can't possibly get this lucky twice!
I had been absolutely dreading turning the clocks back. It was not uncommon for AJ to start stirring in the morning by 6am, which would mean after time changes that our day would start at 5am. Well, we survived so far. The day was a little off, but this morning he woke up at 5:45, which, all things considered really wasn't the worst that could have happened. This weekend we also saw our first tooth! Its just barely through his gum, but its there, and he's feeling it. He doesn't appear to be in too much pain, but um, I wasn't aware of the very scary so much drool that he's CHOKING on it! When he is laying on his back while I'm changing him, he could do voiceovers for Darth Vader, his breathing sounds so awful because its just so gooey in there. A few times he has just started coughing and choking while playing because it goes down the wrong pipe. Poor kid.
He also has laser like focus on any item that he knows he is not supposed to have. The remote, the phone, his monitor, the fan, wires, paper, plants, shoes--- oh my gosh he is fascinated by shoes. I know this makes it sound like I have not childproofed one square foot of my home, but we have. Its just that when we're holding him and walking around, he spots one of these and tries to lunge out of our arms for it. His favorite activity of all though, is taking two of his plastic stacking rings-- one in each hand, and crawling (rings in hand) ove rto the tile par of the floor, and then repeatedly throwing the rings onto the floor. Crawl, throw, find, throw, find, throw. He loves the sound it makes! I'm not sure if its a coincidence that our tenant has let us know she will be moving out by the end of the year....
In addition to chasing speedy gonzales and mopping up drool puddles, the other physical activity I actually managed this weekend was yoga. I had gotten a Groupon for a new Bikram place that opened up nearby and finally got to use it. Before getting pregnant and before hurting my hip, I was doing Bikram a few times a week for about 6 months. I was finally getting pretty good at most of the poses and tolerating the heat. It had been about a year and a half since my last class and oh man... today I can barely move. Picking up AJ was like a feat of superhuman strength since turning over in bed practically took a miracle. I'll be aiming for 2x a week now. It felt really amazing to do something physical again. And like always with Bikram I leave class feeling an amazing balance of having gotten my butt kicked and having just woken up from a very restful nap. I'm not sure it would be my preferred activity if I had all the choice in the world, but it will work for me for now.
And now, its back to work, where hopefully someone will bring me lunch so I don't have to alarm my hamstrings and actually get up out of my chair.
I had been absolutely dreading turning the clocks back. It was not uncommon for AJ to start stirring in the morning by 6am, which would mean after time changes that our day would start at 5am. Well, we survived so far. The day was a little off, but this morning he woke up at 5:45, which, all things considered really wasn't the worst that could have happened. This weekend we also saw our first tooth! Its just barely through his gum, but its there, and he's feeling it. He doesn't appear to be in too much pain, but um, I wasn't aware of the very scary so much drool that he's CHOKING on it! When he is laying on his back while I'm changing him, he could do voiceovers for Darth Vader, his breathing sounds so awful because its just so gooey in there. A few times he has just started coughing and choking while playing because it goes down the wrong pipe. Poor kid.
He also has laser like focus on any item that he knows he is not supposed to have. The remote, the phone, his monitor, the fan, wires, paper, plants, shoes--- oh my gosh he is fascinated by shoes. I know this makes it sound like I have not childproofed one square foot of my home, but we have. Its just that when we're holding him and walking around, he spots one of these and tries to lunge out of our arms for it. His favorite activity of all though, is taking two of his plastic stacking rings-- one in each hand, and crawling (rings in hand) ove rto the tile par of the floor, and then repeatedly throwing the rings onto the floor. Crawl, throw, find, throw, find, throw. He loves the sound it makes! I'm not sure if its a coincidence that our tenant has let us know she will be moving out by the end of the year....
In addition to chasing speedy gonzales and mopping up drool puddles, the other physical activity I actually managed this weekend was yoga. I had gotten a Groupon for a new Bikram place that opened up nearby and finally got to use it. Before getting pregnant and before hurting my hip, I was doing Bikram a few times a week for about 6 months. I was finally getting pretty good at most of the poses and tolerating the heat. It had been about a year and a half since my last class and oh man... today I can barely move. Picking up AJ was like a feat of superhuman strength since turning over in bed practically took a miracle. I'll be aiming for 2x a week now. It felt really amazing to do something physical again. And like always with Bikram I leave class feeling an amazing balance of having gotten my butt kicked and having just woken up from a very restful nap. I'm not sure it would be my preferred activity if I had all the choice in the world, but it will work for me for now.
And now, its back to work, where hopefully someone will bring me lunch so I don't have to alarm my hamstrings and actually get up out of my chair.
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