DC Diaper Dispatch: September 2012

So much has been going on in the last couple of weeks. I started back to work, we took a trip to Florida, and Carson turned 3 months old! I don’t even know where to start…

Starting back at work and sending Carson to daycare was easily one of the hardest things I have ever done and it is still hard two weeks later. I know in time it will get easier, so I just keep truckin’ along and savor every, single snuggle I can get with him. Carson is doing great at daycare. He’s eating and napping well and he tends to be in such a pleasant mood in the evenings when he gets home! We are all still trying to get into our new daily routine and hopefully we’ll have it down pat in a couple more weeks so I can get more sleep. Right now I wake up around 4:45am to shower and get ready for work (thankfully Carson falls asleep NLT 9pm, so I can normally fall asleep by 9:30). After I shower and do my hair and make-up, I head downstairs to feed the cats and prepare the bottles for the day (I just got more bottles in the mail, so next week I’ll start preparing them night before to cut out this step). Around 5:30 I wake up Carson. I still can’t believe I spent so long trying to get this kid to sleep through the night and now I’m the one waking him up! HA! After I give him a fresh diaper I nurse him for about 10 minutes. After that I set him in his bouncy chair and I pump excess breastmilk (which is quite a lot after 9 hours). This is my favorite time because he is in the best mood! While I pump he just smiles, kicks, talks, etc. It’s really so much fun. After I finish pumping I nurse him for a few more minutes if he’s willing and then I normally have to change his diaper again (this kid is a bathroom-going machine), and I get him dressed in his clothes for the day. Once he’s all set I go ahead and put my clothes on and then we head downstairs where daddy is normally finishing up his breakfast. We gather everything we need and out the door we go at about 6:25. Adam and Carson drop me off at the metro and then they head on to daycare. Adam has been great taking on the role of daycare daddy! He also watches Carson for a bit each night before I get home and I’m very thankful for that and happy that Carson gets some one-on-one daddy time every day. I normally get to work around 7:15am and leave around 345pm. On Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays, I head to the gym right after work and Adam and Carson pick me up from the metro at 6pm. Tuesdays and Thursdays I come home directly after work and get home a little after 4:30. Once I get home I normally will nurse Carson right away. I’ve realized the thing I miss most when I’m at work in the closeness and bond I feel while nursing Carson. I cherish those moments now with him so, so much more. After our nursing session there are bottles to wash, dinner to cook/eat, playtime/snuggles to be had, etc. Before I know it it’s 8:15 and it’s time to get Carson cleaned up and ready for bed. It’s amazing how much my work weeks have changed and how little free time I have now during the week. As tired as I am in the morning, when I see that huge gummy grin staring back at me, I know it’s worth it and I know I wouldn’t change it for anything in the world. To help with our new crazy schedule, Adam and I hired a housekeeper that will start this week. She will come and clean every other week. It will be so great knowing our weekends will be able to spent having fun and spending time together and not worrying about getting the house cleaned!

Last week we took Carson on his first plane ride to Florida! I was so nervous about being “those people” on the plane with a screaming baby, but Carson was an absolute angel both ways. On the trip there he fell asleep before takeoff and didn’t wake up until about 25 minutes or so before we landed. I just nursed him all the way down and he didn’t make a peep! On the way home, he once again fell asleep before takeoff. He woke up after an hour or so , though, but between me nursing him, him looking out the window, and Adam and I making silly faces at him, he didn’t cry at all. We were so, so thankful! I think all the people sitting around us were too! HA!

Carson had a wonderful trip to Florida where he got to spend lots of time with Oma and Opa, meet all of his great grandparents, cousins, great aunts and uncles, etc. He was such a good baby the whole time too. He was great being passed around to person to person. He did have his first little cold while we were in Florida, but it didn’t get him down at all! He was quite the trooper. While we were there he also took his first tip to the beach. We got his feet in the water, but it was so hot and sunny we didn’t stay long. What we did do every day with him, though, was go in Oma and Opa’s pool. He LOVED the pool! It was so funny. We weren’t sure how he would take it since it was a little on the chilly side, but that boy just straight up chilled in it every day. We would get tired of the pool before he would. It was so sweet. I think we’re going to have a little pool baby on our hands!

Carson turned 3 months old on Monday! I cannot even believe it. Time is just moving by so fast. I still remain in awe the changes and developments I see in him every day.

I am one lucky lady.