10/31/2003 05:26:10 AM|||Ellen|||Ryan and I had our first solo adventure on Wed. We went to Dr.'s office, Lactation Nurse appt. and Washington Hospital to visit his nurses (and drop off Krispy Kremes for each shift!) all by ourselves. Of course, I started getting ready an hour and a half early to make sure I had everything. I recently read something to that effect - "Mommies never leave the house on the spur of the moment" or something like that. Again, more appreciation for every woman out there that is a mom, especially my mommy! But we did great. Everything went smoothly, Ryan is doing so well that we are moving to every other week baby appointments, and it was so sweet to see some of his nurses at the hospital.

Notable Quotables - why did the doc say that I needed to change Ry's diaper. I'm like, is it wet? I didn't think it was .... she says no, he needs to go up a size. He's got the bikinis on, and he needs the full coverage. Oh gosh. She is too much. This is also the woman who during my litany of is-this-ok-what-about-that endless stream of questions, says yes - babies heads to get flattened from laying on them day after day. We call it toaster head. Laughing, LOL laughing.

On being a mom - still, makes me laugh to think about it, although with the progressive lack of sleep its not quite as funny as before. On the whole it's fine, but oooooooh get me in that 2:35 am gotta get up and feed baby, but I just laid down at 2:20 from the last feeding .... Reaaaaauhhhhhhrrrrwww. Enough said. It's totally worth it, and meeting with the Lactation Nurse (highly reccomend for all preggers) solidified my desire to breastfeed. Oh gosh, today is tiring, but just like bedrest these days will fly by and next thing you'll know baby Ry will be in California, driving around in his too-dark tinted Jetta calling me at 9 pm. Oh wait no, that's not my son, that's Aunt Kathy's baby boy. hee hee.

But seriously, being a mommy takes more than the physical stamina to do everything - which is already a lot of stuff! This is when that always multi-tasking brain of yours is fully engaged. You have to think about baby's well being right now at this moment, what you will need for him in the next ten minutes, two hours, two years.... Then what you have going on for the day for yourself, the house, and your husband. Then add trying to remember anything outside of your domestic bubble, and forget it. You can't even remember if you ate last night, most TV has little appeal (except, of course for all 4 daily episodes of West Wing reruns on Bravo - even if you've seen then 3 times in a row) .... and holidays barely register.

Today is Halloween. I remember, I forget. I should buy candy, but didn't. Think about making plans, but didn't. Well, as long as baby is all good.....Again, with Ryan's good party timing.....so now he gets to celebrate all of the fall holidays as well. I love it, my friends love it and most especially my chili-pepper-costume buying mum loves it. Will post pics of Ry's Multiple Halloween 'Fits soon. He wore his little rasta-spider beanie and matching socks out on Wed and the nurses were dying laughing over him. This kid is gonna cringe when he sees what kinds of getups his mommy is gonna be putting him in for the first year of his life. But I promise, I think, to stop with the crazy-cuteness by the time he can dress himself. I hope I can still find the ivory velour with multi-hued turkey and embroidered "My First Thanksgiving" jumper. Woo Hoo for the holidays.

Note to self, stop whining and start wondering and waundering. This is life as it should be. And be nicer to your husband!



|||106760677058868355|||Baby Ry and my first outing