| Jul. 31st, 2005 @ 07:20 pm Childless |
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We have no baby boy this week. He left for Colorado with my parents bright and early yesterday morning. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) jlhill, hillgiant and their little Claire came to visit this weekend, and it was weird to have Claire here, but no Nicholas. pxdick also came to visit us this afternoon, and all 6 of us had a nice pot roast dinner together (well, OK...Claire had YoBaby and a taste of peaches...no pot roast for the 6 month old). It was a nice afternoon/early evening.
All of our company is gone now...headed back to their respective homes, which leaves trav23 and I here alone. Alone in the house for the first time since December 30, 2003. Weeeeeird feeling. Very quiet. Very odd. So, I called my parents' house to see if they'd made it home with my boy yet.
I could hear him laughing and giggling and having a good old time with my dad in the background. He slept pretty well last night, given that it was his first night in a hotel room, and he doesn't normally sleep anywhere but his crib (last night, he slept with my mom in the bed...this is a child who absolutely refused to co-sleep after 5 or 6 weeks of age). He woke up once during the night, and stayed awake for 15 or 20 minutes, til Grandpa crawled into bed on the other side of him, and then they all snuggled back down for a couple more hours. Mom says he traveled well in the car today, only getting antsy about the long drive once or twice.
He doesn't miss us. Which is a good thing in most respects...I definitely want him to be able to travel and stay with his grandparents without freaking out about us not being around. He's a pretty well-adjusted kid. He knows that he can trust the people who love him to take care of them, even when it's not Mommy and Daddy. One of the advantages of me working outside the home, and him going to daycare, I suppose.
My vacation from work starts tomorrow. Whee! I am hoping to get a lot of stuff around the house done. But tomorrow will be spent being lazy in the morning, then heading to my Weight Watchers meeting, and then heading to the mid-cities to take baby equipment (bassinet, swing, cradle, carseat) back to my brother and then taking baby clothes and assorted other stuff to heartflare's house for her little boy, Riley, who is 3 months old now. :) Then there is lunch with former coworkers on Wednesday, and IKEA grand opening on either Wednesday afternoon or Thursday (jenmarie? still wanna go?). Gee...I sure hope there's time for me to get some stuff done around home after I am through planning social engagements!!!
And every night, of course, a call to Colorado to see how my little one is doing, and to hear his voice. The peace and quiet and prospect of time to myself is lovely, but gosh, I already miss his hugs and kisses. |
Lauren (my neice) is away from home for the first time, while my brother is at home with the other neice.
My sil called mom last night but I didn't :)
I wish I could go to Ikea... some day I will !!!