'Mommy Mode'

'Mommy Mode'

Here's a picture of me and Delphia that Shane took at Grandma's house yesterday! It's amazing how tiny she is and I actually like how the picture turned out! I have to have a bragging moment....I am down to my pre-pregnancy weight and back into my regular clothes and she is only a week old! That has to make a girl feel good right?

Here's an updated picture of the little bean! I love her in the color green and so she and I had fun taking some pictures this morning before Grandma came to spend the day!

I am struggling to get into what I am calling 'mommy mode.' I have been so used to 'work mode' for the last 7 years that it has been a big change to stay at home and not really have a schedule. I used to wake up and get breakfast and get to work and stay busy all day, eat lunch with everyone in the office around noon and work some more and spend the rest of my day at my mom's waiting for Shane to get off work. Now I get up and am lucky to hop in the shower before it's time to feed her, my hair gets wet 3-4 times before it gets blowdryed. It was 10 by the time I got breakfast and I don't really feel that I got much accomplished today. It's just a really different lifestyle from what I am used to. I have wanted to stay home forever and be a mom and I am so looking forward to it, I just know it will take awhile to get used to. It doesn't help that this week Shane has worked 1:30 pm to 10 pm every night and I just had her a week ago. I know it will get easier though and I can't wait to spend all day with this little angel girl and teach her all the things she needs to know, it's just hard right now when she can't even communicate and she pretty much just sleeps. Shane and I love her so much though and it's hard to imagine our lives without her.

Tomorrow I am planning on sleeping until Shane gets back from seeing his patient and letting him get Delphi ready and I will get ready and then we are going to stop by the office to show off our darling little Delphia! It should be fun!

The Little Blast-Ended Screwt

The Little Blast Ended Screwt!

You may think that this is an odd title to introduce your new little girl into the world, however that is her new nickname and she is only 6 days old (I can't believe it!).

Let me tell you how she came by this nickname. It was Sunday night and we were having a terrible time getting her to go to bed. She just wanted to nurse and nurse and beheld by her mom. I was exhausted after getting no sleep in the hospital and completely overwhelmed with having her and it being her first night at home. I sat up with her from 11 pm until 6 am just rocking her in the chair and her nursing 3-5 minutes here and there. At about 6 am I thought, "She is going to want to eat in 15 minutes so I am just going to lay her in her bassinet next to our bed and lay in my own bed for 15 minutes." About 20 minutes later I smelled something stinky and so Shane got up to check her diaper and there was nothing there. He had fastened her diaper back up and seconds later the nickname was born! Her poor little body just shot up off the changing table and boy did she need her diaper changed then! Ever since she never is quiet about it and so she is now named Delphia the blast ended screwt!