Mommy "Me" Time: The Tornado That Is My Life

Ok, maybe tornado is a bit of an exaggeration. I've just been really busy lately. It seems like there is always something going on. Bug has started to smile, laugh, grab his feet, and teething has begun. Lord help us all. Also, little bug is 3 months old! Only two short weeks away from being 4 months old! It feels like it has been both the blink of an eye and en eternity at the same time. Other people that I know had their babies after me and they seems to be growing up so fast! Sometimes it baffles me that my baby is even older than they are! And yes, I am still breastfeeding. It has gotten leaps and bounds easier! Bug will eat from both sides in about 10-15 minutes now. He is also almost sleeping through the night. We're at a point now where he will wake up only once and that's usually at about 5-6am. Not bad considering the fact that he is going to bed at 9.Still co-sleeping, although I'd prefer that we didn't. I am ready to have my bed back! Not to mention, I want to get him started on a set schedule soon.

I'm not sure if I mentioned this in a previous post, but our bosses (I say "our" because both me and hubs work at the same law firm) has us set up to work from home. I am in the office TUES and THURS while Nicholas is at home with bug and Nicholas is in the office MON and WED while I am at home with bug. On FRI, we're both in the office and we bring bug with us since our office hours are 8am-noon. I tell you all of this because our VPN (device/system that gives us the ability to work from home) has been down for the past 4 weeks. Yes, this means that we have had to bring our baby into the office for the past FOUR WEEKS. I am so far beyond the point of being severely pissed that I almost don't even care anymore. On second though, no, I am still really pissed about this. Our lives are negatively effected by this in multiple ways. (1) My son doesn't take good naps there because there is just so much going on. (2) I don't get nearly enough done because he gets fussy, or he's "talking" to himself too loudly while someone is on the phone. It's nothing like when we're at home where I'm quite productive and he is in his comfortable element. (3) My dog is messing up my house. Chloe is apparantly a sensative soul and she got used to us being home most of the time. The change must've been difficult on her because she has started to scratch at our walls putting multiple holes in the sheet rock. Awesome. (4) I have ZERO energy to work out when we get home from work. When I could work from home, I would wake up at 5am, eat breakfast, do some work, and at about 11am before lunch, I would do my Yoga Meltdown DVD. Yea, I haven't done that mess in 4 weeks and my flabby gut shows it. Today, I had to squeeze into the fat girl pants that I wore the week after Lucas was born. I haven't put on much weight on the scale, but I certainly feel the difference in how my jeans fit. Case and point, this sucks. BUT - the VPN should be fixed by the end of next week. FINGERS CROSSED!!!

Bug taking a nap at the office with his bear, "muchacho."

Once we are up and running again, I plan to start baby boot camp in my house! Crib training will begin again with both naps and night time sleep. I am going to try 2 methods for doing said crib training (both exponentially easier than the previous sleep training, that was a nightmare).
METHOD NO. 1: Put baby in his crib awake, but drowsy. Stay in the room with baby until he falls asleep so that he doesn't feel abandoned and also to stick that pacie back in his mouth when he spits it out. We all know that it is going to happen. After a few nights, start to stay in the room with him, but stand further and further towards the door until you are eventually out of the room.
METHOD NO. 2: Cry it out. Today, Nicholas was cleaning out the swing because of a poop explosion while I was out of the house. Since he was busy cleaning up poop, he put Lucas in his crib. Of course, he cried for about 20 minutes, but then he fell asleep! And guess what? He is perfectly fine. No harm, no foul. I'm willing to give it a try.

I went on a bachelorette girls weekend in Tybee Island/Savannah with some friends of mine. We stayed in a condo on the beach. We stayed in Friday night, got in the hot tub, walked down on the beach, and had a few drinks. Saturday, we spent the day in Savannah walking around downtown, had lunch at Paula Deen's restaurant, Lady & Sons, and then walked some more down on Riverstreet. That night, we went to downtown Savannah all dolled up in a 1950's pinup theme and had a few drinks at a few bars and watched my beloved GA Bulldogs lose to Clemson. BOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Sunday was the beach/recovery day. We were going to go to a place on the island for dinner, but everywhere is a whole in the wall type place and we had 10 girls, not so easy to get a table. So we decided to eat at Uncle Bubba's which is Paula Deen's brother's restaurant. Guess who was there???? PAULA DEEN!!!! Yup, I got to meet her, got a video of her saying "Hey Ya'll". It was pretty cool. Monday morning, we packed up and headed home!