Been a while... I know!

Here I am. I'M BACK!

I realize that I have been away. I know. I have been busy. We got back from our Mexican vacation last weekend and its been a week of getting back to normal and routine. I must say, we've got a great little traveller on our hands. She did awesome on the flight there. We got a quite a few compliments about her. One guy said "Not going to lie, I was scared when I saw your baby, but she did great!" Madelyn was a little trooper. She fussed a little more on the flight home and our seats were at the very first row of economy so when I was standing up holding my screaming, extremely tired, child I had the whole flights attention. I mean, it really only last 5 minutes and I would look down to see my husbands deer in head light look and I'd say "Its not YOU infront of everyone, why are you all red?" Its always the Mommy's dealing with these issues. And to think he wants to add to brood. Hmmm...

Madelyn made so much progress in a weeks time! She did so much better on chunks of food. She actually ate pineapple, honeydew melon, catalope, chicken, turkey... amazing really. She fell asleep in her stroller for her morning naps (again AMAZING!) she slept in a crib in the same room as us, and got her two top teeth. Its was a busy week,[insert big sigh].

Madelyn is still napping twice a day and heading to bed between 6pm-7pm. Very nice, very nice. I can hear the applause, thank you! I know, I've got a great baby. I hear it ALL the time. Your so lucky, she's so good. Maybe, I do need to take some credit for my our good baby. She's practically sleeping thru the night every night. I mean last night she was up at 11pm when I had just fallen asleep (seriously, kid you couldn't have woken up 30 minutes ago?) Gave her a quick bottle and she was back down until 630am this morning. I know I need to get use to those early mornings.

I am dreading going back to work... not really the going back, as my bank account is screaming for me to go back to work, but for the choas of the mornings. I need to have her dropped off at the sitters by 630am and ready to work by 7am. What a task thats going to be. Starting a couple of weeks we are going to do some trial runs and get her used to the early mornings, and me too!

Just when you start to get the hang of this mothering/baby thing, you head back to work. Just as she starts sleeping thru the night, napping twice a day without a screaming match, playing and being fun, you go back to work. Just as I am starting to really enjoy her and I am so in tune with her (for the most part, I mean don't get me wrong I still have my WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH HER moments) I will be going back to work for 8+ hours a day. I am going to miss her. I know now, I sometimes run for the door when I get to go run an errand. I am not going to lie. A little freedom every now and then feels amazing -- but to have to leave her EVERYDAY? Sucks.

Here are some new pics of her from our vacation: