Letter to Carly--Month Three

Dear Carly,

Yes, once again, I am late in posting this. I started back to work on December 16, so I have been pretty darn busy lately.

You are such a joy in our lives!! You smile ALL the time...you have "coo" conversations with me daily...and you love to chuckle out loud. Angela says you are a doll when she watches you. You drink from a bottle for her, but, boy-oh-boy, when I come home from work, you want to snuggle, cuddle, eat for hours it seems!

I unofficially measured you the other day. You are about 23 inches long and weigh about 13 pounds. I put all all the newborn clothes (sniff) and you now wear 3-6 month sizes! I really wonder if you are going to get to wear all the clothes that you have...it seems your closet is jam packed with the cutest outfits ever!

You had your first Christmas!! Not that you really cared! You got some neat toys and cute outfits...about what you'd expect for a baby to get for Christmas. The only downer was that you had a cold...you still do, as a matter of fact, but it is getting better. Your nose is not as stuffy as before. Poor thing...you hate your "nose gobblin" and I hate having to suck out your snot...because no matter how much I get out, twenty seconds later, you are stuffy again. Poor thing.

You used to sleep through the night, and I say USED to because lately, you have been getting up at least once a night. I think it is your stuffiness making you wake up...and then when I suck out the boogies, you want to eat. It is getting a little old on the days I work, but it's OK...you're going to be my little Princess for only a little while. I enjoy spending time with you so much more now that I have to leave you three days a week, so getting up in the middle of the night to hold you really doesn't bother me. This too shall pass...

You are getting so strong. You keep pulling your head up when you are sitting in your car seat. The other day, I put you in your little swing because I was trying to get dinner ready. I looked down and you had pulled yourself to the bar and were hanging over the edge. Whoa, baby! At least it is close to the floor, but now I know I need to make sure to buckle you in each and every time! You really don't spend too much time in your swing anymore. And you don't seem to like the bouncy. You want to be sitting up, taking in all the action around you. And you really like to be carried upright, on my shoulder. Sometimes, you will even fall asleep that way!

You really only cry when you are hungry...or sleepy. And if you do start to cry, I can always calm you right down. What a difference from a couple of your brothers, who shall remain nameless...LOL.

I love you Sweetie-pie! You are my little Princess...it's fun watching you grow up!!

Love lots

Mommy

Back to the grime...err, grind!!

Well....I had my first day back at work in twelve weeks...my first day back since the birth of my beautiful daughter...my first day back as a relatively "skinny" girl (well--skinnier than I was at nine months pregnant...LOL).




So, do you think it was a good day or a bad day???



It was a GREAT day!! I so love my job!! I fell back into the groove of things without missing a beat...it felt like I had never been gone at all.



Of course I thought of Carly, talked about her non-stop, missed her like crazy and showed off pictures I took this morning so I could look at her chubby cheeks all day. But it was not overwhelmingly sad like I thought it would be.



And the best part?? Angela sent me a text message to say that she was drinking her bottles!! Go Carly!!! That made me VERY happy!! I was glad to get the text,a s I promised myself I would not call at all today to check on her...my reasoning was that I didn't want to call and hear her being miserable in the background becaause that would have broken my heart and there would have been nothing I could have done about it. But she did great!!

My babysitter sent me this picture of Carly's first day away from Mama. While I am glad she did good, she's smiling?? Was she happy to be away from me??? LOL

The blog world has suffered a loss...

Why is it that I get all my great writing ideas at night, when I am comfy cozy in bed?? I mean come on, when faced with the choice of getting out into the cold, cold night to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard...LOL) or stay nice and warm in my little "nest" (imagine lots of pillows and a fluffy blanket!), of course I'm going to choose to stay put. I tell myself that I will remember it in the morning...and then I never do! I might remember some bits and pieces of it, but I never remember the really good stuff.

I had a fabulously sarcastic and witty blog all thought out the other night...I even edited it in my head to make it even more hilariously fantabulous, but, alas, I awoke the next morning and it was gone...POOF! Suffice it to say, the blog world has suffered a great loss in that it will never get to see that thigh-slappingly funny blog.

Maybe I need to get one of those little recorder things like I see on TV..."milk, eggs, butter"...you know the one I am talking about. But, then again, I might have a hard time explaining to Steve why I am dying laughing at 3 o'clock in the morning!

Of this and that...

Wow--I have been soooo absolutely busy over the last week. I have been trying to jam pack all sorts of stuff into my last couple of weeks off work. I start back a week from Tuesday, and while I am looking forward to being with my work "peeps," I am feeling this incredible sadness at leaving Carly. This is the youngest I have ever had to leave a baby--I know she is too young to remember that I am away from her, but I feel like her soul will know. I know that sounds crazy. I am also freaking out because she refuses to take a bottle. Angela was able to get her to take a little bit the other day, but I worry about how she will eat when I am away from her for over 12 hours at a time. I bought her a bottle shaped like a breast yesterday, but she hates it too. Uggghhh... She has been awfully clingy lately, like she knows something is up. I will miss our naps and just holding my sweet baby girl all day, without a care in the world. I will miss picking up Landon from school every day...it's our special time. I will miss hanging out with Ryan on his days "off"...just me and him and his "cute baby Cahdy."

I am trying to finish the room in the garage...without any help. So as you can imagine, it is slow going. All that's left is to finish texturizing the ceiling, paint, and install carpets. Oh, and install some closet doors, but that is going to take some finagling b/c the area is very wide.

I bought a "Miracle Blanket" for Carly yesterday, and, boy, let me tell you, it lives up to its name. It truly is a miracle, because my sweet angel slept for almost NINE hours last night!! Of course, I was hurting very bad (the girls...hehe) and a hilarious encounter with the pump ensued at around 6:00 this morning. That my friends, is a post for another day...but lets just say it involved some leaking, spraying and changing clothes.

Well--Carly is ten weeks old now, and I will have to post some of her pictures from this past week when I have the time.