We have a crawler

Crawling part 2

Shopping Cart

Alexis is now sitting in the shopping cart like a big girl! She LOVED being able to look around and get the full Target experience!

We survived the first week of daycare & work

We somehow managed to survive the first week of returning to work and going to daycare. Alexis loves her time with Mrs. Sandee. Plus, her buddy Connor goes to the same place (which means I have a friend to talk to about what's going on and how we're feeling). I was physically exhausted this week. Working full time is hard!! Especially when all I want to do is go home and play with my daughter. I get home from work around 3:30, feed Alexis and then put her down from a nap. You can see it in her eyes, she's absolutely exhausted from her full day of "work" and she goes down for a 1 1/2 - 2 hour nap. At 5:30 she gets her dinner and is in bed by 6:30. That doesnt leave much time for me to play with her. I've started playing with her in the morning because I know I wont get much time after school. It just makes me sad to know that I only get 3 hours a day with her, and she's napping for 1-2 of those hours! I was so looking forward to our weekend together, and she has been less than pleasant all weekend. It's actually made me quite sad. I dont know if it's because she's sad at me for "abandoning" her at daycare and so she's letting me know that she doesnt want me to put her down for one second, or if she misses daycare and is sad to be home, or if she's going through a growth spurt and is dealing with a new routine and is learning new things and that is what is causing her behavior. I certainly hope that this isn't how she behaves at daycare though. If she cries as much at daycare as she did at home this weekend, I'll be super embarrassed!! I dont know what happened to my laid back happy girl :(