my first mommy's day with the munchkin

May 10, 2009

Happy Mother's Day to all the women in my world again! I got to spend all day with my own little Mother's Day present and it was, of course, good. She was a little fussy at times but, hey, what baby isn't? She was also VERY cuddly for a good bit of the day, which is always nice.

Playing hide and seek with the camera.

Jimmy's still sick. I don't know what to do to fix it and I hate it. He's taking his medicine. He's not eating anything he shouldn't (he's really not eating anything). He drinking lots of liquids. And he's still sick.

I hate this.

It's stress that sets it off, I'm sure. His work stresses him out like crazy (not the work, but mainly the people he works with). So I talked to Charles today and he said he could come up with some more hours for me. And I'm still applying for other things and he's putting in a good word for me at one of the positions.

Basically, we're going to see what we can make work. I'm not sure Jimmy's going back to work and, if he does, it will not be as much, just a few days a week. He'll take care of Lil Miss during the day and I'll work as close to full time or more as I can.

Being a fussy little monkey.

Lil Miss is so good to me. She's so good at work -- she really is! Since I didn't get to work Thursday or Friday, and since Charles has a trial starting tomorrow, I worked yesterday and again today. Charles was there for awhile this morning and remarked on how good she is and how amazing it is that she just amuses herself (I always make sure to have Moo Cow and I take other toys too -- there's a drawer in my desk that has a few of her toys and such that I just leave there). She was perfect the whole time he was there. She's was perfect pretty much all day. She got a little fussy towards the end (when we'd been there for five and a half hours already) but that's to be expected and all that I had left to do was stuff I can do from home anyway.

She saved the being really fussy for when we got home.

We had a long evening -- I think she was gassy, so she was crying and fussy and just wanted to be held. I think it was part gassy, part hot (it's Key West in May -- it gets a bit warm), part sleepy (that she was fighting really hard) and I think part just grumpy/sad/had a long week and needed cuddle time. She did let me talk to Momma on Skype for awhile (so I could show off how big Lil Miss is getting!) but got really fussy after about fifteen minutes so we got off the phone. And I basically held, cuddled and bounced her for the next four hours.

But now she's sleeping and I think Mommy's going to head that way. I hope everyone had a good Mother's Day. Love you all!

Burying herself in Mommy's shoulder. I can't help but melt when she does that.