Things I Never Did BEFORE Baby

Wake up multiple times at night....I am one of those people whose head hits the pillow and I am out until the alarm goes off. I was even like this up until the day I gave birth. Now I am up multiple times a night whether Emersyn is crying or not.

Watch a lot of TV....nope, never much into TV at all, not even when I was younger. I would watch TGIF...remember that? Full House, Step by Step, etc. Before Baby all I looked forward to was Modern Family and Big Bang Theory. However while on maternity leave I went from the Today Show to Rachael Ray to The New Adventure of the Old Christine to The Chew to The Talk to Ellen, (took a break to walk the dog) and then Family Feud, and then watcher TJ put on. So sad.

Play on my phone....Just got an iphone in the past few months. I never spent much time trying to figure out how to use it...until I sat nursing a child. Nursing can be boring, and you have a free hand. I learned how to use the app store and downloaded some games to play...and lots of songs to itunes.

Laundry every day....I love doing laundry AND people had warned me how much laundry I would do with a new baby. Another thing I didn't totally believe, but yet another thing that was true. I could do laundry every day, and in some way shape or form I pretty much do do laundry every day.

Let stuff just sit around....everything in our house has a place, and we like things in that place. The bed gets got made everyday and bags from the store got unpacked and put away within minutes after arriving home. Folded laundry got put away immediately and the pillows were arranged on the couch. Ha! Not anymore. Bags from the store sit on the floor for hours or days. Folded laundry sits on the couch (until the baby is up), pillows from the couch are in random places, and the bed gets made sometimes, or partly made (we can blame this on Buster because he spends a lot of time lounging on our bed-keeping up with a baby is tiring). Every few days we do a mad sweep through the house and put it back together.

Forget Everything....of course I don't really forget everything, but it feels like it. I can be mid sentence and forget my thought. Someone could just finish telling me something and I forget, I even forget things I have said or not said. "Did I say this to you or just think it" is one of my frequent phrases. I forget to respond to text messages, emails, and phone calls even though I feel like I am on my phone all the time and if it wasn't for the calendar, I may forget the day. I had to count back from 1984 the other day to see how old I am. I am hoping my brain returns.

Plan an outing....I always make a list of things I need, but never before have I planned the day I would go to the store. More than that if I take E with me I plan to go to as many stores that are close to each other as possible. Running into Ulta for hair spray just doesn't happen. It is Ulta for something then TJ Maxx for something else and Trader Joes for a few groceries. This way I can get the stroller out and get a bulk of stuff done at once. Oh, and the walking from one end of the shopping center to the other - no big deal..she is happy in a stroller:)

Forget to check the mail...and I don't mean look through it, I mean like go out to the end of the driveway and look in the mailbox. Haha...oh how many times we have had the conversation in our house, "did you check the mail today?" "Wait, did we check the mail yesterday, " "When was the last time we checked the mail...."

Been so "slack" at work Now if you are my boss, or coworker, or if you have a child in my class please don't worry...I am doing a good job, I promise! I just mean that my baby has made me a better time manager. What I don't get done at school during the day I most likely won't get done until I get there the next day. The reading plans used to be typed up and printed before I left Friday evening, now they are written in pencil. I used to have everything out and ready in the afternoon for the next day and if I didn't I would worry about it all night and write a ton of sticky notes of things to remember to do the next morning. Now I don't think about school at all after I leave and just get things ready whenever I get there in the morning. Oh, and I used to think if I got to school after 8 (which is 35 minutes before we even have to be there) I was late. Now I am lucky to be there by 8. I do hope this gets better though. I feel that being well prepared only  helps me teach better and helps me have clear thought, but for now (me and my sleep deprived self) will keep taking it day by day. Oh and I have learned this all in one week:)

And MOST importantly...

Told someone they were so beautiful so many times....This child is completely amazing and beautiful and I don't forget to tell her every day. I will continue to learn from her and be amazed by all the things she can do each and every day. We are so blessed to have this little girl in our lives and I pray that we will be the kind of loving, supportive parents she needs to grow up smart and strong and beautiful and know that she is so loved by so many people!

Bumbo Seat

She can hold her head up really well.....so we decided to try it.

 

3 Months

Where has the time gone?? Despite the lack of sleep, back to work, and day to day life...the days go by quickly!! Every day little Miss Emersyn learns something, or discovers something, or changes her not so much of a schedule, schedule:)

This month she has become such a "big girl." She tried so many new things...she loves to be held up so she is bearing weight on her legs, she likes it when we help her try and roll over (she hasn't really shown interest in doing this on her own), still loves going on walks and going shopping (her eyes get real big when we walk into a store), she wants to be where everyone else is and watching (whether it is getting ready in the morning or making dinner), and just yesterday we tried her out in her Bumbo seat.

We love you pretty girl!!