10 Weeks

Today is my last day of maternity leave, and it has been pretty great. Frances is now 10 weeks and doing very very well. This time with her has been wonderful.  I will cherish it forever.

The worst problem about taking care of a newborn is the sleep deprivation, and for the most part, I think we are done with that. You see, my little girl likes to sleep at night. The last few nights she has been sleeping 7+ hours at a time. It feels amazing. When she does wake up, she quickly eats and then goes back to bed.  I always hoped she would be that type of baby.  Having a good night sleep improves everything.  Once I go back to work, there is a chance she might increase her night feedings to be with me, but I hope not.

I couldn't choose just one shot from today, so you get three. At first Frances was content to look at me, but at the end she saw her feet and just kept trying to grab them over an over.  Look at the concentration on that girl.  I think she got the furrowed brow from me.

I keep telling myself that my work is not too bad. I only have to work 4 days a week and I get to come home for lunch every day.  How many people can do that?  The lunch things is also good because she is still refusing a bottle. If she doesn't eat for Aaron, at least I will come home eventually. Aaron is under no pretenses that his first few days will be easy.  

This last weekend Ben and Leah visited us. We had a great time and Henry got a lot of sword fighting in (I would say mostly from Leah). Frances behaved herself well.

 As you can see from the photo above, Henry is doing great in gymnastics. The gym is dark so sorry for the quality of the picture. He loves gymnastics and we love how it exercises him. He also started basketball and really likes that. I'm really hoping he continues it because I love basketball. Really, he could do baseball in the summer and basketball in the winter. Well, that would be our dream, we will see what Henry chooses.

I am being very domestic today and baked a breakfast that took 2 1/2 hours long and made a soup that took over an hour to make.  Lots of left overs for the next coming days.  I'm doing all I can to prepare for tomorrow. I'm not too sad (now), especially since Aaron is watching Frances.  We'll see how tomorrow goes.