#94 - Check

Number 94 on my list of 101 things to do in 1,001 days was to go back to work and NOT cry.  I went back to work today and shockingly, I didn’t cry once!!!  My plan was to keep myself as busy as possible in order to not think about the fact that I wasn’t with my baby.  It’s still our busy season at work and I didn’t even go to my office, I was working at one of my client’s offices.   Since I was at a client’s office, I definitely had work to keep me busy all day.  I will say the one thing I really didn’t like (aside from just being at work in general) was pumping.  I’m not a fan of pumping while at work!  Justin sent me several pictures of Carter throughout the day so that also helped.

The one part of the day that about made me cry was when I got an email from one of our receptionists that I had a delivery at the office.  I wasn’t expecting anything, but as soon as she said that, I immediately thought that Justin sent me flowers.  He has sent me flowers to work on Valentine’s Day and my birthday every year that I’ve been working at my firm, so that was my first thought.  I called him and he swore up and down that he didn’t send anything.  So I asked the receptionist what the delivery was and she sent me these pictures:

So since it said it was “from Carter”, I actually had no idea who it was from.  One of our employees offered to call the florist to see who actually ordered the flowers.  Come to find out, it was from my in-laws.  How sweet of them!!!  They’re in Mexico right now on a mission trip so I can’t call them to say thank you.  They are so awesome.

Overall, today was a success.  We’ll see how I am by Friday though :)

Always Have Him In A Diaper…

Otherwise you end up with this:

While getting Carter ready for a bath, he did this to me.  Daddy was getting the bath ready while mommy was getting him out of his clothes and took off his diaper.  I know better than to walk around with a naked baby, trust me.  After taking off his diaper, I wrapped him in a towel and walked to the bathroom where he takes his baths.  When we I got to the bathroom, I decided to weigh him (he’s 13 pounds now) so I had to take the towel off.  As soon as I got done weighing him, I picked him up and was seconds away from passing him to daddy for him to give the bath.  In those seconds, he peed on me.  And that’s A LOT of pee!!  What’s funny is that right before he peed on me, Justin turned around and saw that I was holding Carter naked and he said “poop on mommy!  Poop on mommy!”.  ALWAYS HAVE HIM IN A DIAPER!

#30, #31 and #37 - CHECK

Three more things to knock off the list!  Number 30 on my list of 101 things to do in 1,001 days was to lose the pregnancy weight.  11 weeks after Carter was born, I did just that!!!  My goal was always to lose the weight before I went back to work, which I did!!   I gained 36 pounds when I was pregnant.  I was rapidly losing weight after I had Carter up until about January 17th and then I stalled out until February 21st, even gaining a couple of pounds back.  Between February 21st and March 15th I lost the remaining 12 pounds and reached a pound below what I was when I got pregnant!!  Yes, I kept a log. 

Number 31 on my list was to watch Carter laugh on purpose.  He’s been doing this since about a month and a half (6ish weeks old).  I’ve yet to take the time to video him doing it, but I have a favorite picture:

One of these days I’ll get it on video and post it.  His laugh lights up a room :)

Finally, number 37 on my list was to move Carter to sleeping all of his daytime naps in his crib upstairs.  Again, he’s been doing this since about 6 weeks old (I’m not good at blogging about things when they actually happen).  He was originally sleeping downstairs in his pack n’ play but we needed him to be able to sleep in his crib, so when he was around 4 weeks old (I think), we started doing one nap a day upstairs, but he wasn’t loving that.  I finally decided it was all or nothing so I put him in his crib upstairs for all of his naps, everyday.  It was an adjustment, but after 2 or 3 days, he was taking great naps.