- We got a new car due to the hail damage
- I start a new job in 1 week
- Evelyn starts daycare Thursday
- Evelyn is growing to fast and making leaps and bounds developmentally. Here's some more detail...
She has been holding her head up fairly well, but on Friday it was like she took a super baby pill! She started sitting up for 2-3 minutes at a time. She also held the "frog position" for about 30 seconds and then she would fall over. It was so cute!
In addition she is really starting to "coo," make lots of sweet noises, and smile a lot more! It's so much fun. I'm very thankful that Claudia and Noe at Learn N Fun Home Daycare take tons of pictures and shoot videos so I can see her milestones I'll probably miss while I'm working.
As many of you know "I'm a workaholic!" Well I'm not anymore. While I've been doing some work from home, I have been enjoying having 3 months with Evelyn. She will most likely be our only child that gets me home for 3 months straight! I'm excited about my new adventure working at SMU as an Elementary Assessment Coordinator for the Reseach in Mathematics Education Unit. It's about 5 miles from my house and the benefits are amazing! I can get my doctorate for FREE, Scott can get an amazing discount for his Master's, and Evelyn will have the opportunity to become an SMU Mustang if I continue to work at the university for many years to come! There are also so many other benefits, it would take alot to describe!
I'll admit being a mom has had it's rough moments:
- Crying for 2 hours at night for about 3 weeks ~ not anymore ~ Dr. Karp's 5 S's have saved our life! I have a happy baby and many have told me a great baby. I can only imagine what our next one will be like since she has been so wonderful.
- I officially haven't had a full nights sleep in 3 months and I'm hoping that will be coming to an end soon! She hasn't been taking a bottle in the middle of the night anymore, but she still wakes up a couple of times between 2 and 5.
- Everything piles up. There are some days I just want to enjoy her and I do nothing but that. Laundry piles up, groceries don't get bought, and naps get taken together.
- It's been quite the transition for Scott and I. He has been amazing through my tears, fears, and gripes. We are learning together what it takes to still be us with our additional little one. It's work, but it's allworth it! I'll admit, I wouldn't mind to have some alone time together. A full day date and a full night's sleep would be so refreshing!
- Sometimes I don't know what to do when she cries, but I figure it out....eventually
- I dispise clipping nails. I clipped her skin 2 times the other night. Evelyn cried like she had been given a shot...so I cried with her!
- The swing is one of the only things she likes to be alone in...learned today from friends on facebook...IT'S OK!
I'll post her 3 month pics and stats after Thursday when we take them!
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