Well I made it through my first week at work. I was feeling great at the beginning of the week and in tears by Thursday night, missing my baby. But our nanny has been working out great and I’m sure things will just get better and easier every week. I definitely love my job, but it’s hard to leave behind a little person you’ve been with 24/7 for three months straight. Finn was surprised to see me out of yoga pants and a sweatshirt and told me I looked “handsome”. Â :)
Sophia is smiling so much, and starting to laugh and coo like crazy. She hates tummy time but has attempted to roll over a few times. She’s still sleeping in our room and woke us up this morning just jabbering away. I’m sure she’ll convince us to have a third which will turn out to be nothing like her!
I go back to work in less than a week. I can’t believe our baby girl is already almost 3 months old! I have enjoyed this maternity leave so so much. It was such a different experience than our first time around and I’m so thankful for it. I think we truly appreciated every minute of having a happy, healthy newborn.
Smiles!
I love you more than you know Sophia, double chin and all! xo
Finn hasn’t really ever been into dancing or performing of any kind, but lately he’s been requesting “dance parties”. Here’s a video of our Friday night dance party. Pretty sure he got his parents moves. Poor kid.
Sophia’s been practicing her tummy time and is getting better at holding up her little noggin:
She continues to be an awesome baby - doesn’t even cry in the night, just sucks her thumb so loud that I wake up and know she’s hungry. We usually sleep together after her last feeding, from about 4-7am. She just konks out on my chest, so sweet:
Happy New Year! We celebrated east coast New Year again this year. I have a feeling we’ll be doing this for many more years. We had a party with our neighbor friends - 8 kids under the age of 4 in one house. It was chaos but lots of fun.
Poor baby girl…guess she better get used to it. Finn is still really sweet to her, and when she hears his voice she smiles.
All the mamas:
We got a cake pop maker for xmas so we tested it out. They came out pretty good!
Noah and Finn went to the car show on Saturday morning with Scott and Van. Apparently Finn and Van were break dancing on the benches and in and out of all of the cars - Van in the driver seat and Finn in the passenger. I am sure the salespeople were thrilled to see them. Not.
Finn’s been off school since Christmas, so I’ve been hanging with both kids all week. We’ve been to the library, every park in PB and have built lots and lots of lots of Lego masterpieces. Only 2 1/2 weeks of maternity leave left - boo!! I’m going to miss these little faces…
We had an awesome first Christmas with just the four of us. We definitely missed our families but had a really great time. Finn started the day not wanting to get out of bed because he thought Santa was still here. Once we told him he was gone and left presents, he was outta bed and into the living room.
We started with the stockings…m&m’s, trains and glow in the dark stars:
Then moved on to the big stuff:
Sophia’s first Christmas! She slept through most of the day:
LEGOS! We love Legos over here, and got lots of new ones today:
A great gift from Todd and Lisa that kept us busy:
And the aftermath:
It was 75 and sunny today, which is always a little weird, but we got to go for a long walk and play at the park. Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! xo
Noah went to Mammoth for the weekend with friends, so my mom flew out to help me take care of these little monkeys. We had a busy weekend and I think she needs a few days of recovery! Here’s a recap of our last few days…makes me tired just reading about all of it, but if you know my mom, you know her energy!
Finn’s school had their Christmas concert on Friday afternoon. His class sang Jingle Bells and he was of course the only kid who refused to wear a Santa Hat or reindeer antlers. At least he sat on the stage for the entire performance, unlike last year!
We had to make our standard trip over to Sea World. They had tons of beautifully decorated Christmas trees and a Snow World that had real snow and sledding for the kids:
We played at the park:
And yelled into the storm sewers - Finn loved the echo and kept asking “who’s down there??” Um, hopefully no one!
We made Christmas cookies for friends:
Sophia was a trooper and trekked along with us everywhere we went:
I got out alone a few times and finished almost all of my shopping. Can’t believe Christmas is only 1 week away…wow!! Thanks for coming mom…love you!
Miss Sophia had her 2 month check up today. Weighed in at 10 pounds and measured 23 inches long. She got 3 shots and has been miserable all afternoon, poor baby. But she started smiling last week and I actually caught one:
