Michael, watch the baby while I eat breakfast... and don't fall asleep.

Back to School...

Today I am headed back to school. I hate that I will be leaving Olivia all day long, but she'll be at "Daddy Day Care" so I'm not as anxious as if I had to leave her at regular day care.

It feels good, on the other hand, to be getting back to work. I got my classroom nearly set up on Saturday and only lack a few things to do before the kiddos arrive at 8am. I'll probably end up shoving things into lockers, closets, desks, etc. to make it look good (and curse later when I can't find what I need because its crammed into a "special hiding place.")

It's going to be a good year I think.

Week Five and Back to Work

Well, here we are. The end of August. That means only one thing... Back to School. Not only for all the kiddos out there; it means for me too. I have to start back to work tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. I don't want to. I want to stay home until Olivia goes to kindergarten. I won't be able to focus at all tomorrow (I hope there isn't any "important" information in my trainings).

Week Five pictures were taken today because when I get home tomorrow I'm not going to have time to take a picture: I'll be holding Baby Olivia to tight!

Week Four- One Whole Month!

Olivia was born four weeks ago today. She'll be going to get her one month portraits this week (hopefully she won't be cranky for them!)

Olivia has started to reach out for her bright colored peacock that's attached to her crib, it crinkles when you touch it. She also enjoys what we call "The Clown Show" which is her Cirque du Soleil mobile that plays the song Alegria. Olivia seems to really like being sung to. I sing "Accidentally in Love" by the Counting Crows (from Shrek!) and last night we had a sing and dance moment to "Jump Around" by House of Pain (video should be posted shortly!)

For the last 3 days Olivia has been sleeping through the night and getting on a schedule of sorts. This makes me happy because I may be starting back to work next week and that's one less thing to worry about.

She looks so happy

I was able to catch this smile in the act with my cell phone. I love those early smiles, even though I know it's probably just gas ;)

Everything is going good. We have our bumps in the road but we manage. We did start on the bottle last night since I'll be going back to work soon and I was glad that she took it with no problems. Olivia hasn't taken any of the pacifiers we've tried to use so I was afraid she would have problems taking the bottle. Thank goodness for small miracles. I'm glad that Michael can start to have that good one-on-one time with Olivia.

Week Three

We've made it 3 weeks already! And today we officially had our first blowout! Mommy and Daddy were very surprised that a tiny baby could hold so much poop! It was everywhere and it looked like Olivia had been saving it for quite some time ;)

By the way, this is what happens when Mommy forgets to turn off the flash on the camera before taking the picture!!

Week Two

Here it is, week 2!

Olivia is proving to be very cranky indeed! We went to the doctor this week only to discover that baby has PMS. She's got too many hormones from the pregnancy in her system and it's like she has PMS. Poor Michael. I am hormonal because of the pregnancy and so is the baby. He can't win!