Visitors and Sleep

We had a fun time with friends!  Their stay was much too short but definately needed.  While I love my Lucas, it was nice to be able to leave him with family and go out and have a good time.  Mommy even got a little drink!

We spent a lot of time playing travel agent.  We made a trip to San Antonio to visit the Alamo

and visited some places in Austin.  We even got my favorite "Hey Cupcake"

Eventually they had to leave and life went on.  Lucas was restless on my chest last night while I was trying to put him to sleep so I layed him down in his RockNPlay and he put himself to sleep around 10 PM.  We're slowly trying to move up his 11 PM bedtime without throwing the little schedule we have off.  E had to be at work super early this morning so when he left he informed me I would need to be aware and do the 4 am feeding.  I felt like either time stood still or I had slept through Lucas crying.  I frantically rolled over only to find that it was 6:52 AM and my son was still sleeping!  It was awesome!  Since my alarm was going to go off at 7 and I still needed to feed him and get dressed myself I decided to just get out of bed.  I was able to do all the things I needed to do and drop him off at my Sister's by 7:45 so I could go and get an ultrasound of my gallbladder.  That was quick and I was back home by 9:30.  We spent the afternoon at my Sister's house and then came home.  Lucas took an almost 3 hour nap and I was able to get the laundry done and snuck in some lunch.  He's been sleeping like crazy today so I'm assuming he's also growing.  We were able to sneak in a photo session too.  lol Mom was a little bored today:

7 weeks and a dilemma

My little munchkin is 7 weeks old.  This is his outfit of the day. We went to run some errands today which included going by my work, Target, my BILs shop, car wash and the gas station.  He was an angel the whole time we were gone.

He's sleeping right next to me, he acts like his life is just so hard!  lol I had my camera out earlier trying to catch a good picture of his smile but he wasn't having it.  He would only smile when I took the camera out of my face-so of course I wasn't able to catch it.

I'm in a bit of a dilemma.  When I left work I had in my mind I would be staying home and not going back until March 5th.  Now that the time is here I find myself wanting to go back to work now.  I'm bored at home, my Sister will watch him and so I don't have to worry about daycare availabilities.  It makes me feel like I'm doing something wrong and it isn't a good decision but really, I don't like being at home all day.  I need some outside interaction.  I miss my coworkers and I know if I go back a couple weeks early that's more vacation time put back into my bank.  E and I like to travel so it's always good to have the extra days and if Lucas gets sicks I would have days to take him to the dr and not have to burden my Sister.  I'm still on the fence and haven't made my full decision but what sparked these feelings was when I went to visit my coworkers and pick up a check, my boss asked "When are you coming back!?!" lol She's so anxious for me to get back to work.  I can't believe I've already been out of work for   8 weeks.  It's insane.  I'll keep you updated on my decision.

This weekend is going to be awesome!  My friend Nicole from Oregon is coming to visit along with Kate and Mark from New Jersey.  I met these girls while planning our wedding on theknot.com and we became bestfriends.  I visited with them when we went to Boston and Connecticut!  They are a big part of my life and I can't wait until they get here because I need some serious adult interaction.  I keep telling Lucas all about them so he will be prepared.  :) 

New Car!

E and I bought a brand new 2012 Chevy Cruze.  It's beautiful! 

We traded in his old Honda that we inherited from my Mom when she passed away and the Charger that I used to drive went to him.  I love my new car!  Lucas likes it too! :) 

An update on the spit up.  We dropped him back down to 3 oz and only 4 oz before he goes to sleep.  It's worked perfectly!  He doesn't spit up anymore and he seems to be happy.  I guess those couple of days were just a fluke and the 4 oz were too much for his little tummy.  We are still doing tummy time and he's still not enjoying it! 

His outfit of the day was so cute I have to share!

He's getting so big so fast that it makes me sad.  Tomorrow is my 6 week post partum check up with my dr and I hope she gives me the all clear to work out. I'm ready to go back to zumba and get my high school body back!  One can wish right! :)