Tuesday: tired

Oh my, I'm exhausted.  And it's almost not worth going to bed because I'll just have to get up to feed Mr. Isaac.  We'll see.  I'm not sure what I'm going to do.

But besides that, it was a really good day.  And Isaac gave us a lot of smiles at night.

Monday: sanitizing bags

So since I'm working, I'm pumping milk for Isaac to eat when I'm not around.  (Eat?  Drink?  Anyway.)  The bag is a nice black that kind of looks like a laptop bag.  The milk storage bag is black and looks like a little lunch bag.  But the microwavable sanitizing bags?  They are bright white and yellow with "Medela" all over them.  It means that if I want to try and be discrete I need to stuff the bag in the carrying bag between the bathroom and the kitchen.  And hope that no one is in the kitchen.

For all the work they put into making the process as discrete as possible, they completely failed in this area. It isn't really a problem, but still a little annoying.

Sunday: dominion

So recently we found an online Dominion game.  While it isn't the same as playing with the cards, it is a lot easier to set up and take down and you can play will people several states away.  Today we had our first official dominion party.

Eight of us played Dominion and hung out using Google's hangout.  It was a lot of fun.  Oh, Isaac joined us too.

Google hangout also has a button that lets you add masks to the person in the image.  Isaac got to be a cat.

Saturday: bears

Isaac was wearing a bear outfit today, so I thought for a picture we should get him with all of his bears.

Some extended family came over for dinner and to meet Isaac.  It was a nice evening.

Friday: Isaac's 10 week birthday present

Isaac turned 10 weeks today!

I think it's funny how one part of his body can be moving super-fast and the rest of it just being still.

For his birthday Isaac decided to only wake up once last night.  Once!!  I woke up at 4:30 and wondered if I had forgotten to turn the monitor on.  (It's happened once or twice, but we can still hear him from our bedroom...just not very well.)  I thought about it for a minute, and then remembered that I had heard it right before I went to sleep.  About thirty seconds later the monitor went off and Isaac was asking for food...I wonder if the monitor woke me up too and I just took a while to realize what was going on.

Hurray!  I also had accidently made his bottles a little larger than normal today, but he drank all of it.  So I'm hoping that he ate enough during the day that he can sleep well tonight too.

Side note: I don't know how to spell accidently, but spell check is only giving me dumb options for possibilities.  So I won't be fixing it.

Thursday: book giveaway

I was contacted to read another book!  Who can resist?

This time it was Sonoma Rose by Jennifer Chiaverini.

I'll give you an abbreviated summary of the front cover...because otherwise you'll stop reading this post:  prohibition era, bad husband, wife runs away, new old love, children mysteriously sick since being toddlers, vineyard, evil Prohibition agent.

I enjoyed the book.  I liked it much better than the other book.  There were some things about the plot that were very easy to guess, but enough things that I wasn't really expecting to make it interesting.  And the best part?  The blocks for the patterns that are mentioned in the book are in the front cover.

Like last time, I'm supposed to pass this book on so someone else can enjoy it.  Let me know if you're interested!

Wednesday: work

I know...it's the subject on everyone's mind.  How did Amanda's first day back at work go?  Did Isaac enjoy day care?  Did Ben's day go well?

The answer to all of those is...ok-ish.

I dropped Isaac off and only got a little choked up in the car...not bad at all.  I actually enjoyed the morning at work.  It was the part of my job that I like.  I fed Isaac over lunch.  Again, it was nice to see how everything in the room works.  And of course see Isaac, although I didn't get any smiles.  Then the afternoon.  It didn't go all that bad, but I'm not excited about some of the projects I'm going to work on.  And somehow I was getting all the meeting notices and accepts/declines for meetings for my manager...which meant that I had received over 700 emails while I was gone and 675 of them were unimportant.  But I still had to go through all of them and figure out which were which.  It got old in the afternoon.

Then I went to pick up Isaac.  I realized I had no clue what he did during the day and that saddened me.  The "story time" and "tummy time" boxes where checked, but I don't know how long they were for or how engaged he was in story time or if he managed to actually hold his head up during tummy time or if he just cried.  I do know that he didn't nap very well compared to how well he has been.  The smiley boxes were checked for morning and afternoon, but that isn't very helpful either.

So, stay tuned.  We'll see what happens in the future.