Into Month Three

Many people have told me that time simply flys by when our kids are very little. I had not felt that way until about three weeks ago – right about when I wrote the last blog post. Since then we have had so many new experiences and adventures with Devon the time has really felt like it soaring by.However I had two of the LONGEST days of my life this week. Monday and Tuesday = first days back at work and Devon’s first days at daycare. I am job-sharing now so I only work 2 days a week, 10 hours each day. It’s really odd to go back to a job after 3 months of being off. Really odd. You know what to do but lots of little changes have happened while you were gone that you discover. I’m learning how to communicate in amazing detail so that this job share works well and our folks get the best service they can. The real trick is getting used to pumping 4 times a day in between other tasks at work. I think that may be the trickiest thing to get adjusted to. I tend to like to just work on a project and focus until I am done with it and I really can’t do that anymore. But man, I will get a lot of reading done!

Russ and I divide and conquer in terms of picking up and dropping Devon off and so far that has worked pretty well. It was a lot harder to leave Devon on day one than I anticipated. When it was time to go I couldn’t really talk or I’d be in danger of breaking out into sobs. I held it together…until I got to my car. Cried the whole way to work and then composed myself until I stepped into the lobby and got asked if it was hard to leave my baby and started up again. Once I got distracted by the mountains of catch-up I needed to do I was ok.

Daycare appears to completely wipe Devon out. Both days we picked him up and he got home and told us put me in my bed and leave me the heck alone, I need to sleep. And he did. We had to wake up a very sleepy baby to get him to eat before ‘bedtime’. Looking at the daily report from the daycare I think next week I will ask them to try and put him down for more naps. If I am reading it correctly it looks like he only took one nap all day and for this kid that is about 4 naps too few.

Today (Wednesday) we are home together and he is right back to his usual schedule and heavy into naps. Must be catching up from Monday and Tuesday.Two weeks ago we made our first road trip with Devon to visit Grafton. Overall I think it was a big success. He did fairly well in the car for 7 hours and we stopped twice for him to eat. Of course there were points when he was DONE being in the car but we weren’t quite to our destination so that was tough. When we got home and Russ went to take the screaming baby out of the car as SOON as Devon saw him come to unhook the car seat he stopped crying and was ok. We are planning a trip to Chicago over Memorial Day weekend and are considering flying there. We’ll see…Devon got to meet a boatload of new folks on our trip. Four great-grandparents were thrilled to meet him as well as a slew of aunts, uncles and cousins, friends and most of Port Washington. Here are some photos of meeting the great grandparents Terlizzi and Egelhoff:

Grammy Jan joined us for the weekend as well
and we all celebrated Russ and my mom’s birthdays.
In other news we have 3 MORE CABINETS IN THE KITCHEN! Last weekend we had the wonderful Maggie, Nick, Mom and Dad help us get three really large pieces in the kitchen. We’re slowly finding out what we have (2 years in storage makes you forget what you have so it’s sort of like Christmas morning) and what we have that makes us go ‘Why do we have this?’ Hopefully in the next couple of weeks we will get to put the last pieces in and order the countertops and OMG install the DISHWASHER. We are having a party when it’s all in. Here is what was added to the old butler's pantry space on Saturday:

I haven’t noticed any huge milestones with Devon in the last couple days. He is still doing really well pushing up and looking around on his tummy and starting to grab and bring things to his mouth. So far his favorite is his burp rag. Yum.

Think of us next week as we try to settle down in our Daycare routine again. Have a lovely spring week! Here is a great picture of four generations we took on our visit to Grafton -