The Joys of 2 Boys: February 2008

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

First day at work and daycare

It all started last night :) He wasn't a bit tired at 10:30 when Patrick and I wanted to go to bed. We brought him in the room with us in his bouncy seat. Patrick put him next to the bed and he was there until 4:00 am when he started crying. Patrick fed him while I pumped. Alex slept in his bed until 5:30 when he got fussy again. I put the pacifier in his mouth and he slept until 7:00. I got up at 6:30, took a shower and got ready.

I left for work 5 minutes later than I wanted to, but from what I hear that's pretty good...essentially on time in mom's world. I got to work, brought Alex to the cottage (the daycare), and was a bit sad to leave him there. He just sat in his carseat, wide-eyed, soaking in the environment. Poor little thing didn't even understand what was going on. The Easter Bunny was at school so he got pictures with him....Alex was awake for it but covered up his outfit with his hands :(

My day was pretty good. I pumped twice at work, got to spend about an hour with Alex. My class had library today so I stayed with Alex through the library time and gave him a bottle. While I was feeding him he looked all over the place. He usually looks at me, but I guess he was being nosy.

My classroom wasn't in too bad of shape, but the sub left papers everywhere and nothing made sense. There were tons of papers not written on and stuff stapled together. I have so much to go through and I need to look at my grades....I guess I'll find time to do that this week.

After work ended I rushed to pick Alex up. They were feeding him and he was almost done eating when I got there. They had already changed his diaper so I took him off to my room to do some work. After about 20 minutes he got fussy so I picked him up to buckle him in and he had poo all over his back. I guess in his seat when he poo's there's so much force it just went up his back. So I went back to the cottage to change him out of his cute Easter outfit that Granny bought.

So now I'm working on the stains...hopefully Oxi Clean will get it out.

Being a mom is HARD. I thought the early days when we brought him home was tough, but this is hard too. Coming home after an exhausting day and cleaning dishes, pumping parts, etc. I forced myself to get everything clean and now I'm watching Idol.

Wow this is long....bye :)