Super exciting news for Liz is that she is in Italy for 10 days! Super unexciting news for me is I am not and I am currently working full time and taking care of a high energy toddler. Honestly, with Liz’s surgeries this year, we have this routine down. If you think about it, Jude has been at the nannies or with other people caring for him for about a whole half year with me taking care of both of us and sometimes Liz too. Not all at once, but when you add it up, it is a long time. So, that part we are used to. We get by as best we can and cling to each other a lot:) Not to say it is easy, but Jude and I get a rhythm of get up together go to nannies, come home and have a bottle and a cartoon, read a bunch of books, snuggle and go to bed. In all honesty, there is not much time as I leave for work around 8:20 am in the morning to get Jude to the nannies and then I pick him up around 7:30pm at night and have been putting him to bed at 9pm. We are BUSY during the week. It is a routine of get home- get a bottle, feed the dogs and feed myself and get ready for bed. Crash into bed between 9 and 10 for me and get up and do it all over again.
The big difference for me this time is all the alone time. I basically invited myself over for dinner to a friends on Sunday because I had spent all weekend with just Jude other than random trips to places and one short pre-nap visit to a friends. He was SUPER good all weekend and all week, but it is REALLY hard for this very social mama to be with just a toddler all day. Fortunately, when I called our friends R and T, they came to the rescue again and let me come over there with Jude for a few hours on Sunday night. They are soo sweet and save our little family over and over again in so many ways:)
It is only Tuesday. It feels like my wife has been gone forever and she does not get back until Saturday night. Jude and I ran all over the place over the weekend. We went to the part multiple times everyday, went to an October event at the YMCA and to Target and such.
We have Skyped a few times with Liz which has been nice.
The super cool thing about Jude right now is that he is learning about a word a day. He now can say, “love you, night night, bye, hi, mama, Emma (one of our dogs), dog, cat, more, one and can make the sounds of a dog, cat, bird, cow, sheep, 3 singing pigs(la la la), monkey, lion, dinosaur, bear, and we have even taught him to tell us what a fox says, which he will dance and make funny noises to. (if you don’t know what I am talking about, google “what does a fox say” and watch the video as it is hilarious). There is a new word all the time. Yesterday he said “nice” and today he learned “night night”. It’s pretty amazing to see him learn right before my eyes. He can also identify animals and colors. I have been working on counting with him, but he just says, “one, one, one, one” for all the different numbers. It is still pretty cute.
I love this age. He is cuddly, but wants his independence. He pushed me out of his room the other day because he wanted to play by himself. My little Aquarius is already demanding his alone time:)
Alright, well this tired mama needs to go to bed as we have another long day tomorrow!
-S
I recently had a playdate with my friend and her three girls and it was so nice to have another adult to talk to for a couple hours. It makes a big difference when you're on your own. Glad to know you have some great friends helping you out while you're a single mama for a little bit.
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