07.07.04 / Uncategorized / Author: admin

June 19th

Today was “Meet Audrey Grace Day” at my Mom’s house, this was Audrey’s first time meeting my side of the family and our family’s friends. She also went in the pool for the first time today and wore the bikini her Aunt Michele bought her, she was too damn cute. We had a great day and of course, everyone loved her.

July 5

We spent the 4th of July weekend with my parents and it was very relaxing! We floated around the pool on rafts and it was like a little hour long vacation! Audrey is taking the bottle now so my Mom took care of her and fed her while I goofed off in the pool with Rob, Lorrie, and Chris. This was the first true leisure time I’ve had and it felt wonderful.

Luckily Rob and I have lots of family members willing to watch the baby however we have still been unable to manage a night out together. Were usually just too tired to even want to go. We are hoping to try and get out to a dinner or a movie sometime soon. It’s hard to do anything but sleep with free time, getting dressed and going out seems like a chore. This makes us wonder how people ever have more than one child; when do find the time or have the energy to conceive again?!?! I used to be amazed by stories of women with ten kids simply because they gave birth ten times…what’s even more amazing is that with NINE kids the couple had the opportunity and desire to have sex!

I’ve been back at work for over a week now and starting to feel like my old competent professional self again (as opposed to my “Milk Machine Mommy” alter ego.) After difficult nights it is hard to lecture on just a few hours of sleep, but I am managing. I miss her a lot, sometimes I just want to drive home in the middle of class to smell her and see her smile at me!

She’s really starting to show her personality now and we expect that she will be laughing soon. She still isn’t sleeping through the night…and yes I tried the rice cereal, it didn’t work. We just bought a new swaddling blanket and hopefully that will help. She had an appointment with the pediatrician Friday so I will update again then.