Pictures and 2 months!

Well my baby is 2 months old. As I mentioned in my last post I have some weekly pictures. Without further ado here are weeks 5-8 as well as Maddie's 2 month picture. As you can see she is getting a lot more interactive and fun.

As you can see she is changing quite a bit and getting a lot more fun. She's a very sweet baby and has a pretty good temperment although when she is unhappy she does let you know it. She's been a little clingy with me over the last few weeks which we attributed to being a little over stimulated after our trip to NH and Maine and everyone holding her. I figure I'll ask the doctor about it on Monday when we go in for our 2 month visit.

Jym has had a few experiences of being by himself with Maddie and has done fairly well. The first time she cried for the majority of the time but had calmed down by the time I got home. I was only gone for an hour. The second time I was gone for 3 hours and while she cried for a bit he figured out what she needed and did better although he was definitely glad when I got home.

I go back to work on the 7th which is a little over a week away which is kind of sad but it's time. The first two weeks I'll be doing some work from home and the third week of February is when Maddie starts daycare 3 days a week. I'm still going to try to work from home 2 days a week just till Jym gets a bit more comfortable.

Anyways we head up to NY for Maddie to meet the rest of grandparents, great grandparents, and second cousins (i think that's what we call my cousins). It will be a long weekend but should be good and we're looking forward to it.

Trip Recap & Resolutions

So we have gotten back from our trip up to New England and it was very productive and great to visit with everyone. We left on Monday the 3rd at midnight (so technically the 4th) and drove straight through the night and arrived in NH at a little after 10am. My dad had taken the week off so he was home. He held Maddie while she slept (don't know why she was still sleeping as she slept most of the ride to NH but no complaints here!) and we chatted and caught up.

When Diana came home from work we headed out to lunch at this little restaurant in town and to pick up a cake for Zack's belated birthday celebration on Thursday night. We just hung around for the afternoon and relaxed. On Wednesday Sara came over with Arden and Talon and Maddie got to meet her cousins for the first time. It was great and I couldn't believe how much Arden had changed in the few months since I had seen her. We had a Christmas celebration on Wednesday night and then Thursday was another day of hanging out and then another family get together to celebrate Zack's birthday and let other relatives meet Maddie.

On Friday we made our way up to Maine to introduce Maddie to everyone. We stopped at Jym's grandparents house and it was so cute to watch them interact with Maddie. His grandfather was absolutely enamoured by her. He normally has a very rigid schedule but twice he broke that to play with Maddie and to go to lunch with us. Also I think I saw Jym's brother Mike more in the four days we were there than I had in the last four years. Part of that was because his schedule had changed (he used to work the night shift so he was either working or sleeping) but it was nice to see so much of him.

The weekend went by quickly and Maddie hit a milestone as well of finally starting to smile when not going to the bathroom. She also is recognizing both Jym and myself and greeting us with smiles which was wonderful. We left Maine on Tuesday and headed back to NH ahead of the storm that was supposed to come in. We had dinner with Krissy and Steve Tuesday night and headed back to my parents where my sister was already there with Arden and Talon. The snow started early Wednesday morning and the boys didn't have school so we hung out for the day and then went to the mall to get pictures taken seeing as the boys didn't have school. It was a good time and Maddie behaved herself for the most part and we got some really great pictures.

Friday we left NH around 3:45 and headed down to Boston to have dinner with Kait, her boyfriend Sam, her roommate Emily, Jym's friend Mike, and my friend Jon who are all in Boston. We stayed till about 9 and then got on the road to head to Jersey to Risa's where we were going to crash for the evening. We got there about 2:30 (it would have been earlier but we had some issues with the directions and taking the wrong exit twice). Saturday morning we had breakfast/lunch with Risa and Pat and then got back on the road. We got home around 5:15 and I think all of us were glad to be home. The last few days of the trip Maddie had been very clingy and not wanting anyone to hold her except for me (not even jym) which I think was because she had been passed around so much over the prior week. I'm hoping a few days home with me will help with that and getting back into a routine.

We've missed the last few of her weekly pictures but I will be posting those this week once we go through them all. She's growing so quickly and I love watching all the changes. The time has gone by so quickly. It's hard to believe it's already been 7 weeks. Sometimes it seems like just yesterday however i know it will continue to go quickly especially once I go back to work.

As far as resolutions I normally make the ones that everyone makes and don't normally get very far so this year I decided to not make my resolutions till after our trip to New England. As the return of work is coming quickly (not sure the exact date yet but should know this week) I figured the best resolution would be something that I've been thinking about doing anyway. Normally I leave all my cleaning for the weekend. I have found that since Maddie has been born that isn't the easiest thing to do especially because once I go back to work those will be the only full days that I get with her and Sunday's will just be the two of us as Jym works for 13 hours on those days. I know that I won't want to spend the weekend cleaning. So my resolution for 2011 is to start doing a little bit each night in relation to cleaning. I figure sometime in the next few months Maddie will start going to bed at a decent hour (read before 11pm) so I'll be able to get home from work, have dinner, play with her and then once she goes to bed spend 30 minutes doing the designated chores. That way I'll get to spend lots of my weekend time with her and the house should stay relatively clean.

As far as the rest of my resolutions - well those are the same as everyone else. Loose the last of the baby weight (probably 10-15 pounds), pay down debt, and find more interesting things to cook for dinner. We'll see how those go. I figure I'll do a resolution update in April after I've been at it for a few months. My hope is that it's all going well. Till then we'll just do our best.