Sweet Baby Girl, there have been so many changes in your life lately. You have you smile a lot more. It still isn’t consistent, but we definitely are getting smiles from you. It makes all the long nights worth it when I get those big gummy smiles.
Speaking of long nights, you have started sleeping a lot better at night. For four nights in a row you slept for 7 or 8 hours straight!! Of course, last night you didn’t sleep too well, but I am hoping (and daddy is too) that you start sleeping 7-8 hours consistently. It definitely makes getting up for work easier!
There was a “super moon” on Saturday night. A “super moon” is when there is a full moon on the same day that the moon is closest to Earth in it’s orbit. According to the radio, a “super moon” is 14% larger and 30% brighter. Daddy and I took you outside on Saturday night to look at the moon. You actually stared at it, as it was the brightest thing outside. It was a little windy, and you liked having the wind blow in your face.
I really enjoyed just having family time- just the three of us. I am trying to take in every moment we have together while you are so little. I know that time is going to pass by so quickly, and I don’t want to miss a moment of it.
Yesterday there were tornadoes all around us and the sirens were going off. We couldn’t see any tornadoes, and normally I would have stayed upstairs watching the storm, but now with you here I couldn’t do that. We went and “hit” in the basement underneath the stairs. I’m sure you are going to love it as a play area when you are older.
I love you so much Noelle. More and more every day.
I will always love you to the moon and back.
Love always,
Mama
Monday, May 7, 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
One Day Down, Only 18 Days To Go
Today was one of the hardest days I’ve had to go through since you were born. I had to go back to work today. When I was pregnant with you, I was thinking, “well maybe I could go back to work”. Now that you are here, I know there is no way I could be a working mom before you are in school.
I am finishing the school year before I can stay home with you full-time, which means that I have 19 school days that I have to be away from you. Daddy has to take you to daycare every morning, because you can’t go until 7:30. I have to leave by 6:15 at the latest to get up to school on time. So I left you with Daddy this morning. You were still sleeping when I left. You looked so peaceful, so calm…and it made me cry. I know you are too young, but I worried about you waking up without your Mommy, having to take a bottle, and being away from me all day.
Daddy took you to daycare and said you were sleeping when he dropped you off. Even he felt weird just leaving you with someone else. You are going to Sophie’s Infant Care, which is an in-home daycare. Miss Amber is taking care of you, along with 4 other babies. You are the youngest by far, with the others being 4 months, 6 months, 7 months, and 21 months.
I still worry about you all the time, even though I know you are in good hands- Amber has six kids of her own and has been doing daycare for a very long time.
Before today, the longest I had ever been away from you was 30 minutes, and that’s when my mom was watching you as we were moving into our new house. I thought about you all day at school. It’s hard to teach when you are the only thing on my mind. The kids were good today, better than normal, but it was still difficult to be away from you.
As soon as school got out I left to come get you. I was worried the whole way back down to Leawood, but when I got there you were happy and content- drinking your bottle. It made me feel a little better that you were happy, but it also made me sad that someone else had seen you all day. Someone else had played with you, someone else had gotten those beautiful gummy smiles that you are just starting to do.
The countdown has begun. There is one day down, 18 days to go. I love you sweet sweet baby girl, and I always will.
Love,
Mama
I am finishing the school year before I can stay home with you full-time, which means that I have 19 school days that I have to be away from you. Daddy has to take you to daycare every morning, because you can’t go until 7:30. I have to leave by 6:15 at the latest to get up to school on time. So I left you with Daddy this morning. You were still sleeping when I left. You looked so peaceful, so calm…and it made me cry. I know you are too young, but I worried about you waking up without your Mommy, having to take a bottle, and being away from me all day.
Daddy took you to daycare and said you were sleeping when he dropped you off. Even he felt weird just leaving you with someone else. You are going to Sophie’s Infant Care, which is an in-home daycare. Miss Amber is taking care of you, along with 4 other babies. You are the youngest by far, with the others being 4 months, 6 months, 7 months, and 21 months.
I still worry about you all the time, even though I know you are in good hands- Amber has six kids of her own and has been doing daycare for a very long time.
Before today, the longest I had ever been away from you was 30 minutes, and that’s when my mom was watching you as we were moving into our new house. I thought about you all day at school. It’s hard to teach when you are the only thing on my mind. The kids were good today, better than normal, but it was still difficult to be away from you.
As soon as school got out I left to come get you. I was worried the whole way back down to Leawood, but when I got there you were happy and content- drinking your bottle. It made me feel a little better that you were happy, but it also made me sad that someone else had seen you all day. Someone else had played with you, someone else had gotten those beautiful gummy smiles that you are just starting to do.
The countdown has begun. There is one day down, 18 days to go. I love you sweet sweet baby girl, and I always will.
Love,
Mama
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