First week back at work

(Cohen first day without me - heading to the babysitter's house.) 

I survived my first week back at work.  The first day went like this:

5:00AM - Jump on elliptical for 30 minutes

5:35AM - Get Cohen up (I cry) change his diaper (crying), put on his outfit (still crying)

5:40AM - Nurse Cohen (pull myself together)

6:10AM - Get Stu's lunch together (cry) and pack up diaper bag (crying hard)

6:20AM - Play with Cohen and kiss him like 100 times (Cohen starts crying from too many kisses)

6:30AM - Pull it together for 5 seconds before I start crying again as I kiss him and Stu goodbye.

After Stu and Cohen left I jumped in the shower to get ready for the rest of my day. My mind was everywhere. All I thought about was Cohen. Will he sleep enough?  Will he eat enough? Will he get played with enough?

I put my clothes on for work, which I will admit it felt REALLY good to slip into my stiletto heels. Being a mom with a new baby...sexy is not a word I would use to describe how I felt for the past 10 weeks. For the first time in 10 weeks I felt sexy. No t-shirts...no pajama pants....no greasy hair hidden behind a ball cap....no baby spit up on my shirt.  I hadn't worn heels in about 9 months so I about killed myself in them while blow drying my hair. I even thought I'm either going to die of a broken heart or death by a stiletto.

On the way to work I just cranked up the music in my car to keep my mind off Cohen and sang. Stevie Wonder - Superstition is what blared in my car.

Stu bought me a digital picture frame for my desk at work so as soon as I walked in I got it all set up so I could watch videos and picture slides of Cohen all day. I was insanely busy at work so my day went fast and I didn't have a lot of time to focus on missing Cohen.

Honestly being back at work felt great. I love Cohen & Stu more than anything, but I really love my career too and juggling both is gonna be an adventure.

Mardi Gras 2010

I wasn't sure how having a newborn and celebrating Mardi Gras this year was going to work, but it was AWESOME!! We celebrated at 4 parades....Krewe of Little Rascals (children's parade)...Endymion, Zulu, and Rex. It was cold this year, but we just bundled up Cohen and he didn't even seem to notice it was cold outside.

Stu's friend TA threw an Endymion party at his house in Mid-City and on our way there Cohen had a blow out (Poo Poo everywhere) so we had to stop at the mall because traffic was too bad to go to our house, and buy him some new duds. I learned to make sure he ALWAYS has an extra set of clothes in his diaper bag...I'm still learning =)

Here are some pics: (no pics from Endymion....we grabbed the camera, but forgot the battery) Oh...the joys of being a new parent!

Valentine's Day

We had fun celebrating Valentine's Day with Cohen. We went to the mall and bought him a couple Dr. Seuss outfits and then headed over to Borders and hung out in the children's section for awhile. Cohen had a good time!

Cohen at 2 months

Mr. Cohen - you bring so much joy to your mom and dad and you don't even know it yet.  Here is what you are doing at 2 months.

- you have made it VERY clear you don't like baths. You scream and your face turns red.
- you are beginning to like the car seat.
- your favorite binky is the "mam" one and I finally found another one today. I have been looking hard.
- you are happy the majority of the time. You only seem to cry when you are tired.
- you sleep about 7 hours straight at night on average.
- you love your snuggie.
- you love your bouncy seat. I put you in it one day because I had to pee really bad and needed a quick spot to stick you. I figured you were still too young to use...boy was I wrong. It is your favorite thing, Your face lights up every time you get in it.
- your head control is amazing.
- you love to lay in your crib and laugh at me and your bumble bee mobile.
- you have been skyping with mimi and gramps.
- you took your first trip to Indiana
- you laugh
- you mimic my facial expressions
- you got your shots....that was a rough night for you.
- you weigh 13.9 pounds - you nurse A LOT!!

Happy 1/2 Birthday Stu!!

Every year Stu reminds me for weeks about his half birthday. This year he decided to start reminding me about it for two weeks. Everyday he would ask "Do you know what February 3rd is?"  I always responded "I refuse to acknowledge a half birthday."  This year I already knew I was going to do something special and surprise him....so for two weeks I blew off his reminders. Well...the day of his half birthday he failed to mention the day at all to me, which worked out perfectly. He got busy with work and just forgot about it. Cohen and I decorated the house, bought him a gift and cupcakes. We had so much fun....and Stu was SO SURPRISED when he walked in the door and saw us in our party hats. I think we might keep this as a tradition for our kids. It was a lot of fun.

Cohen goes to Church...a STINKY situation.

We waited until Cohen was 6 weeks old to take him to church because I was nervous about him getting sick. We go to a Vineyard Church which is HUGE and has a lot of children. The week before we took him to church I went and bought him a new outfit, which I'll post pics of later.

I was nervous that Sunday morning because I knew I wasn't going to put him in the nursery yet so that meant I would be holding him the entire service. I made sure I packed enough milk for a week! He was so good in church. He loved the music, which is one of my favorite things about Vineyard Churches...the music is always over the top. There was one issue with Cohen at church....he had GAS....BAD!  It was loud and extremely stinky and seemed to linger. I felt sorry for Stu because I know no one sitting around us believed this little baby or his mommy was rippin' the farts....the only one to blame and be disgusted with was Stuart.