Making progress

Well we finally made it out of the house. It was a bigger adventure than I bargained for and it was a little bit frustrating but L did great job. We took him to visit grandma who is in rehab recovering from knee surgery. Hubby's brother came with us and his dad was visiting at the same time. I nursed in public with a cover and we even did a diaper change with an enormous poop With no accidents. The frustrating part was that my mother in law double booked her mother sister and cousin to visit at the same time. We rearranged our schedule so as not to overlap with them because I felt it was too chaotic. But of course when it came time for us to leave and her mother had not arrived yet she laid on the guilt that we couldn't possibly leave before her mother had a chance to see the baby. I'm pretty sure the double booking was intentional and not just a painkiller drug-induced mix up. We stayed longer than I wanted to just long enough so that great grandma got a chance to hold the baby. I did not appreciate feeling manipulated. And you can bet I will be holding my ground in the future.

The second part of our outing was to visit great grandpa Louie. It was well worth it just to see how adorable he was holding Luigi. But it made for really long day and I missed my afternoon nap and had a bit of a meltdown because of it. I was patted myself for getting out but I realized that I need to be more aware of my own needs in the future. Two separate visits in one day might be a bit much right now.

Right now I'm at my mom's in upstate New York. Hubby had to go out of town for a few nights for work and I was not ready to be by myself 24/7. He drove us out here on Sunday and Luigi did awesome in the car. He slept the whole way! Of course that meant the night was not as awesome. But we're hanging in and had a good day yesterday. My mom is bringing us home on Friday. I'm trying to relax and get as much sleep as possible away from my house and away from chores. Next week when we're back, I'm hoping to focus on establishing a bit more of a routine. It has to be possible, right? I'm also planning to attend a breast-feeding support group to learn how to get rid of the shield. Enough already! (And thanks Kerry for all the awesome breast-feeding and travel advice!)

Luigi is four weeks old today can you believe it? How time flies! I still haven't figured out how I want to handle his monthly photos. I need to come up with something quick because we need to do it this weekend! Clearly I have decided that weekly photos is way too much to handle!! But I am hoping to write a monthly post to document all the great things about Luigi. We'll see how prompt I am with that!

One last thing this entire post was written by dictating one sentence at a time on my iPhone. It might not sound like my usual writing style. But it's a heck of a lot easier to pull off while breast feeding!