First Mother's Day

It was my first Mother's Day and I couldn't be happier! We had my Mom over for brunch and then went on a long walk in the sunshine. It was a beautiful day!

Xander still gets the bug eyes when we put a camera in front of him.

Here is a cute one from Daddy's photo shoot.


Xander is eleven weeks now, which means I only have seven weeks left of maternity leave. I just received the awful news from my boss (via voice mail!) that I would not be able to do job-share as I requested. Needless to say, I am very disappointed with her decision and her unwillingness to work with me in facilitating the family-friendly environment the State of Oregon claims to foster. Ha! Family-shamily.
So, I set out on the daunting task of finding full-time childcare. I think we settled on the YMCA at Amberglen which is roughly 5 minutes from my work by car. I figure instead of using my two 30 minute breaks designated for pumping breastmilk in a lactation room, I will just drive over an BE with Xander twice a day to nurse. So even though YMCA is not perfect in every way, at least I can see Xander during the day and that should make my working full-time much easier for both of us. Fridays will be the most difficult, since Lyrik stays home and will be watching Xander. I told him that he will just have to come out to Hillsboro every Friday and we will all eat lunch together. Yay!
Xander new developments for this week include more sleeping through the nights and grabbing. After about five days in a row of waking in the night (even twice one night!). I think he was just going through a growth spurt and needed more to eat at night. But now Xander is back to his 12 hour nights, sleeping from about 7pm to 7am.It is so cute to find him in his crib in the morning happy, content, bright eyed and babbling! Hopefully he will stick with it for a while. The grabbing has mostly been while nursing-he will tug on my shirt or bra. But he also is going nuts on his infant chair and the little "guys" that hang over it. We call it his office because he sits in that chair and just goes to work! He gets a really concentrated look on his face while he is batting and grabbing but he throws lots of smiles in there too.