Back to Work

Well, my maternity leave is over. :( It's been really great hanging out with Kirby for 2.5 months, but unfortunately, we're not really in a place that would allow me to be a stay at home mom. Actually, we could do it, but it would be really tight with just one paycheck. Besides, as much as I love my little dude, I definitely need some adult time.

We dropped Kirby off at the day care center today for about 4 hours - mainly so that Kirby isn't thrown into a full day with strangers but also because we needed to deal with some official business (getting our passcodes, dropping off supplies, etc). I was fine when we first dropped him off (he was asleep), but as I talked to one of the teachers about things we need to do, all the babies started to cry. And not just fussing..... hardcore crying! One kid even looked up at me and had these huge crocodile tears running down his face. :( One teacher was talking to me and the other was feeding a baby while rocking two others in bouncy seats with her feet (there are 8 infants and 2 teachers). I know they're good at multi-tasking, but it just broke my heart to know that Kirby would be laying on the floor crying, waiting for his turn to be comforted. :(

As the front desk person worked on setting up our passcode, I wandered over to the infant 2 room to see what was going on. I wanted to look in on Kirby once more before we left, and I saw him laying in his crib, wide awake, staring at the ceiling and snacking on his hand. I immediately started crying and had to quickly leave the building. I didn't realize it would be so difficult. Tomorrow's really going to suck! :(

Gary & I ran around doing errands (looking for a Wii), read magazines at a bookstore, ate Indian food for lunch, and grocery shopped before picking up Kirby. When we got there, he was eating. Apparently, he had a really good day - just hung out in various spots in the room and just enjoyed looking at his new surroundings. He didn't sleep much (about 30 minutes) so I was prepared for a meltdown when we got home.

I fed him just a bit when we got home and he completely passed out! I let him sleep on me for 3 hours b/c I couldn't bring myself to put him down.

I gotta say, we really lucked out with such an amazing baby. He's generally a laid back, happy baby. He's such a sweet heart! All last week he had a cold and even when you could tell he wasn't feeling well, he still had interest in playing and smiling. I feel blessed to have such an amazing little guy in my life and I'm sad that I'm not going to see him as much every day because he's changing so much and every day it seems like he's able to do something different.

Here's the latest video of him - he's talking to his new baby animals book.