I am still learning how to blog… I have never done this before.  I know I will get in a groove, but in the meantime it serves as a means for me to remember the cool things that happen.  I feel like I have missed capturing so much because I was trying to catch up with all that happened with Labor, Delivery, Breastfeeding and the first week at home, and here we are almost six weeks later and I am just starting to blog about the present.  Isn’t that sort of the way life goes?  We live in the past or we live in the future, but hardly ever the present.  Ed and I have tried to make a concerted effort to appreciate every precious moment, and treasure each day as it comes.  It is fun to see her growing… She is so amazing and I can only imagine it gets better.  Mollie is 5 weeks and 6 days old now and every day is something new and wonderful.  This week she has started smiling at me, making adorable noises, and really getting great at holding her head up.  I love her different cries and the little things that make her unique.

Today Mollie and I are enjoying a lazy day at home.  With the exception of a trip to the bank and the store, we have just been hanging out. I start back to work on Monday, which is a really hard thing to face.  I am grateful (and have no right to complain) because I only have to go back two days per week for the entire month of May and then three days per week the entire month of June.  I will have the first 11 days off in July and then back full time.  I don’t know that it could be any more perfect, but the thought of being away from Mollie for an entire day hurts my heart.  I have been away from her for a grand total of four hours her entire life.  Thanks to Ed’s mom we went to see a movie (two hours), my super husband sent me for a massage (one hour) one day and a pedicure (one hour) the next.  I could hardly stand it and would look at pics and videos every chance I got.  I am sure all mothers feel this way, but this is my first time and it is going to be a difficult adjustment.

We have had a very busy week, but yesterday was especially busy.  We met some friends at Children’s hospital for coffee and they loved on Mollie for a while and then we went to meet Aunt Kristin and little Evan Miller for a walking date at Opry Mills.  Kristin and I were talking about how much our lives have changed; how you can’t leave the house without packing for a week, and between the diaper bag, slings, carseat and stroller each outing is a production.  Even though I am only six weeks into this, it seems like it has always been this way.  I am certainly building muscles I didn’t know I had and learning to do every day tasks one handed, which is more difficult than it seems but can really come in handy.

We had a hilarious nursing adventure in the new (thank you Opry Mills) family rooms available.  We weren’t able to just walk because after we ate lunch the girls needed to be changed, nursed and settled back into their strollers, but it didn’t quite happen that way.  Our sleeping angles were not happy to be woken up.  We could have let them remain peaceful, but being the fabulous { } moms we are, we made sure they were changed and nursed preemptively .  The family rooms are essentially an extra room off the restroom area and there is one chair in there that doesn’t look very comfortable, but all we really needed was a clean place to sit and some privacy.  We are still learning how to dress appropriately to make nursing easy and how to be prepared for any situation, but I can tell you the learning experiences never stop coming.  Had there been a camera in there it would have made a great candid camera moment, and I will just leave it at that.  The good news is… we spent a lot of time laughing.

Finally after that adventure, we realized the girls were spent (so were we) and went to our respective homes.  When I arrived home I decided to give Baby M a bath.  I got everything ready and then brought her into the kitchen.  Baby Mollie does not like to be naked (she gets cold) so she lets me know and as she started to wail she projectile pooed all over me.  I just laughed (I must be a mom) because I realized that at any moment my life of figuring out mommyhood would make a great sketch comedy.  Well… once I put her onto the newborn sling in the baby bathtub she settled down  even though she had a “What in the Hell” look on her face.  When I was finished soaping her up I wanted to use the sprayer to clean off the soap (which I always do) on the lowest setting.  In my haste to ensure the water wasn’t too hot in the sprayer I accidentally turned it to fantastically freezing and boy did she give me the “why do you hate me” scream.  I felt so bad, so I quickly turned the water to warm, sprayed her off and got her into her warm and cozy bath towel.  She makes the funniest noises when she is calming down after such a traumatizing event.  I spend a lot of time laughing and then feeling bad about it.  Then we settled down to nurse and all was right with the world.

Mollie and I are enjoying our wonderful adventures together while also missing Ed (Daddy). 

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