Thank You...

....to everyone who helped me out these two weeks while Chris was gone. Thank you Caitlin, Mikki, Robin, Julie, and James for the evening visits, and Hua for the delicious Chinese food. You guys rock.

A Few Things

1. Layla slept from 7:30 pm to 5:45 am. I, of course, woke up at 4:15 and couldn't go back to sleep because I was sure she would wake up any second.

2. Tonight Layla fell asleep while taking her bottle, and she went to sleep without taking her paci. First time for that.

3. When I picked her up from daycare today there were a bunch of ~2 year olds there who were very excited to say hello to me and to point out to me that Layla is friends with the other baby there. The kids are adorable, but poor Layla must be getting used to having children right in her face. 2 year olds don't understand the concept of personal space.

4. Just 3 more daddy-less nights. Also just 3 more couch-less nights. Saturday will be a good day!

Slobbery Fingers

Note the powerful suction.

Day Care

We survived our first day of day care today. Wasn't easy getting out the door....Chris is away all week and there was a ton of thick ice/snow on the car that needed to be scraped. Layla and I finally got out the door just before 7, and she was the first to arrive at Denise's. I left instructions for feeding and gave her a kiss good bye. Made it through the work day and picked her up around 3:00.

Layla was crying when I got there, but Denise assured me she'd just started and that she'd spent much of the day happily watching the other kids. She'd downed her 9 am bottle but only took half of her 1:00. She also didn't nap well in the afternoon.

I think mostly because she was so overtired, she started her lovely screaming around 4:45. I was finally able to get her to fall asleep and she's been passed out in the Baby Bjorn for more than an hour now....I'm typing one-handed because of this. In twenty minutes I'm going to wake her for bedtime, which seems a bit silly.

Then we'll do it again tomorrow...

Baby Plus One

Saturday night, while Trish and Kassam took Ryan to the the Magic Tree House musical, Chris and I babysat Sarah. She was intrigued by baby Layla, and had to try out all of the baby toys and contraptions. Here she is playing with Layla on the baby mat.

Looks Can Be Deceiving

Although Layla appears to be enjoying Dad's guitar playing, about 2 seconds after I snapped this picture, she burst into tears. I'm confident that someday she'll love to hear her daddy play for her.

Friday fun...

Layla and I did some chores this morning, one of which was to take the car for an oil change. While we waited for that to be done, we ventured to Panera. I wish I'd had my camera with me, to take a picture of the most beautiful mug of hot chocolate ever....complete with a mountain of chocolate-drizzled whipped cream. Delicious. While taking my order, the men behind the counter were asking me about Layla....her name, age, etc. One of them immediately broke out into song. Twenty minutes later, as I was getting up to leave, I could still hear him singing Clapton. The poor guy will probably be singing it all day. Not the last time this will happen, I'm sure!

Chris is on a plane headed home. Layla is psyched (ok, actually she's sleeping soundly....but I know she would be psyched if she had the cognitive abilities to understand what's going on!). Anyway, I'm psyched.