Well, Mark has been back at work pretty much full time this week, which leaves me home with Riley full time. Mark leaves before 7am, and gets home between 3 and 4ish most days, and then a couple days a week he leaves at 5:30 to go to soccer practice. So I get Riley bug all to myself most of the day. And I am now realizing how exhausting it can be to be a stay at home full time mommy! Mostly Riley is a really good baby. She eats, is awake for about 30 minutes to an hour, and then sleeps for about 2 hours. But since she'll mostly only sleep in my arms, it's pretty tough to get things done! I'm working on mastering the sling, so that will help, but it seems like I spend all day taking care of her, then when Mark gets home, he takes her, and I run around the house trying to do laundry, dishes, vacuuming, and take a shower and make dinner. And then I take Riley back so Mark can do more work or go to soccer! Quite tiring! I can't even imagine what it would be like if we had a fussy baby! Riley maybe spends 30 minutes a day crying... 10 or so of those are during diaper/outfit changes, maybe 5 are when she's getting hungry, and the other 15 are random cries of fussiness or gas. Like I said, we're lucky. She sleeps 14-15 hours a day, and is awake for the rest, although spends about 3-4 ohours eating. And the rest of the time is spent staring at us with those big blue eyes!
Sling success today...
Sling success today...
Tomorrow Riley has her 4 week appointment, where she will get weighed and measured to see how big she's gotten. She looks and feels so much bigger to us already, so we'll see! I think she'll be 3.8 kg (she was 3.56 last week). That's about 8 pounds 6 ounces I think. Stay tuned...
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