My little Bella is now 10 weeks old and it has been a complete blur since the day I came home from the hospital. There have been a lot of days where I know that I don't even sit down except to breastfeed Bella, or I will look at the clock and it will say 1:00pm and I'll remember that I haven't sat down to eat anything yet? But then 5:30pn rolls around and Robert comes home and asks me, "How was your day?" What did you do today?" I usually respond with a simple, "Fine." "Not a whole lot."
Mostly, I say that because I know I have been really busy, but I can't really recall what all I got done or did that day? Scary huh?
These days I feel like I accomplished a huge goal if I get me and the girls bathed and dressed and fed breakfast by 10:00am. If I do that, it's like, Yeah...I ROCK!
Then in the afternoons we like to bake cookies, play with Bella on her tummy play mat, watch a Disney movie, go grocery shopping, go to the play park in the mall, go to the library to get Alyssa a new book. We have been a bit stir crazy because of the really cold weather and having Bella makes it hard to go out in that. But, we have had some really fun play dates with some of Alyssa's friends from church and her old daycare. She loves playing with her friends, and now that she doesn't get to see them everyday at daycare, it is a real treat when she sees them.
Alyssa is mommy's little helper. She loves to help me clean and cook. She has to be right up on the counter whenever I'm in the kitchen doing anything. "I want to help you!" It is fun because I remember doing that with my mom all the time, even when I was a teenager. Ummm...I think I still sit on our counters and watch and talk to my mom while she cooks in the kitchen back home. Funny!
Bella is such a calming influence on our family. She really only cries when she wants to be fed or she has dirty pants. Her smiles, coos, and sounds she makes at us, fills me with such joy and a lot of relief. I was so nervous that I would have another colic baby that hated me! :) We really enjoy Alyssa now, but she was a very difficult baby.
Even though I have a lot of days where I'm not even sure what day it is or what I have gotten accomplished other than breastfeeding, I sure enjoy being home and being a mommy. There is nothing like it!
Side note: I don't rock so much today because it is 12:00pm and I am just now going to sneak off while Bella is taking a nap and hop in the shower. Sad, but also kind of fun too!
