I've been remiss in the blog entries since it's been so darn busy with going back to work! Olivia is holding her head up a bit now for about a minute, then she tires and it's on the ground, she's squawking. I blame it on her big head and little body! She's growing cuter every single day! I sit with her after nursing and just stare at her adorable, innocent little face. What will her life be like?
About two days ago, Olivia really started noticing and reaching for the toys hanging from her play gym, and was fascinated with my sweater after nursing. She just staaaared at it, and reached for it. So cute! Her new game is to take the hem of her dress, or her blankie and put it right-in-her-mouth! So cute. She likes quilties like her mama did. :)
Another new game is clasping her hands together in front of her and sticking them both in her mouth. She also likes the single-hand-suck and kicking her play gym toys. Olivia is fascinated with the carseat toy from cousin Walter.... until she cries.
The little girl was a super trooper last Saturday when we drove up to Santa Rosa to visit Natalie & Steve ad their little girls Gabby and Maddy. Adorable. It's Natalie's 30th birthday and they moved up there about two months ago. Super fun to see their new house and go walking in a very nice park - Howarth Park I think was the name. Steve even saw a bobcat by the lake! Sadly, Kevin had to work, and missed out o the terrible traffic on the way home!
I'm drawing a blank on what we did Sunday. Kevin worked. I must have cleaned up around the house and did laundry.
We have Olivia's four-month appointment on Friday morning and will get a better sense for how she's grown. I can't wait to see her weight, I'm guessing around 12 lbs. Perhaps 25 inches? That's my guess!
Oh! and her other trick is rotating 90 - 180 degrees in her crib at night. So funny in her little sleep suits. We have a space heater in her room to keep those little hands warm. So adorable!
Saturday night we hop on a red-eye to MD for Thanksgiving week! Can't wait. We'll finally get to introduce Olivia to the rest of the Litwins and will have some quality time as a family. Olivia and I have missed Kevin the last two weeks while he's been on travel to Denver and then working all weekend. Also looking forward to seeing all the Dunkelbergers and Aunt Annie & Cousin Walter. It'll be a party!
We're hoping to make it to the National Zoo during the trip if weather and work permits. Sadly, both Kevi and I will have to login and do some work while in MD. My return from maternity leave has been a little rough. While I'm working "part time" on the books, the workload has not been adjusted accordingly, neither have expectations. It's very frustrating and ends up stressing me out more than if I had gone back "full time" probably. There's a stigma with part time. I'd much rather actually BE part time and not be made to feel inadequate or somewhat guilty for it. Just a tough job I'm in. Time for a change... another thing to work on while in MD. That, and stretching my hip flexors!
This morning Charlie came over to babysit while I dropped off my brand new car at the shop. There was some leak in the A/C system causing water to leak INTO the car on the passenger side. Kevin helped diagnose by doing a ride-along last weekend. Later in the day, my new-mom friend Shonna came over for lunch and a playdate with her little girl, Kailani, who was born 8/1. We had a lot of fun just hanging out, drinking tea, eating tasty sandwiches and hiding from the POURING rain! Yay rain! Cali needs lots more of it!
OK, I'm super duper tired. Without Kevin here for two weeks, my workdays go like this:
0400ish - feed Olivia when she wakes, snuggle in bed until it's time to get up
0500ish - get up, put Olivia back in her crib, shower, dress, feed dogs and let them out, get as ready for work and daycare as I can before Olivia starts making noises
0600 - Nurse Olivia one more time before leaving - precious moments.
0620 - Off to School! First ones there at 0630
0645 - Off to work!
0715 - At work, and field lots of fires, etc.Pump twice in the Mom room (love it!) Very intense 9 hours
1600 - At the LATEST, leave work and avoid terrible evening traffic
1645ish - Pickup Olivia, chat with the instructors
1715 - Home, nurse, let out and feed dogs
1745 - Start bath & nursing routine
1845 - Olivia asleep in her crib, mom starts her own dinner, washes all the bottles, preps bottles for the eext day of daycare if Monday. Try to show the dogs some attention.
2000ish - log in to work to finish hours for the day - with eyes crossed.
2200ish - sleep/dream-feed Olivia or pump, then lights out!
Varies - wake up and feed Olivia when she's crying
Busy days! As I told Kevin, right now my favorite part about Tuesdays is that I don't work on Wednesday. That means I don't HAVE to do the bottles at night. Sometimes I let the dogs sleep in bed with me (not tonight though). After Thanksgiving, Kevin will be traveling again until Christmas. Mama's not too excited about that - he's missing two months of Olivia's biggest development year. But, that's just how his job with lots of transports has worked out. With Lockheed Martin Space Systems shutting down the Newtown facility and laying a bunch of people off, you have to do what you have to do to stay employed.
OK, it's 2209, time for me to turn off the light. I've been seeing double all night tonight so I really need some sleep. I'll have to add photos later.
Oh! And I now employ the teenage girl across the street to let the dogs out around 3:30 pm after school. Then I don't feel so badly about the dogs being locked up for suck a long time! This was our first week of the dog-sitting and it's gone well! I'm over-paying her, but oh well. Perhaps she'll turn into a babysitter in a few months too. Yay for taking a page from my parents' book, and she was jst talking to her parents about finding a way to make some money. Trixie and Kiwi love her already - Marissa sent a pic the first day of the dogs on her lap trying to lick her face. So cute! Apparently Marissa always wanted a dog. Super cute.
REally, time for bed, Kate. Close the computer! (This is why I need Kevin home - he gets me out of my OCD phases)
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