awful, awful, awful, awful, awful, and then something great happens.

my title comes from the new Jennifer Lopez movie The Backup Plan. In this scene Anthony Anderson plays a dad at the playground talking with the soon-to-be Daddy, and he’s telling him all the gritty details of parenting but how one little thing makes all the crappy stuff go away. Well I believe it, and while we haven’t had a lot of “awful” yet, we sure have had a lot of “something great”.

Today littlebutt is 3 weeks old and I’m flabbergasted, 21 days gone in the blink of an eye. While I’m sure that the days are clicking by much too quickly, they have been a pretty amazing 21 days. I was officially a Mommy on Mother’s Day, we have established a schedule that Levi follows almost all the time, bath-time is one of our favorite times, and let’s not forget the everyday things our son does that blow us out of the water.

Take this for example:

sup chump.

I know! Picking up his head like it’s nothing! And it’s not like this is a sporadic occurrence, oh no, he does it all the time and will hold it up for a good minute before remembering that he has a noodle for a neck. Yesterday he stepped it up a notch pushing a little with his feet and I about died, lord help me he’s trying to be mobile already….

I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this already but, we have been blessed with the best baby ever. No lie, he already goes 4hr stretches at night and nothing less than 3! He’s been doing this for about a week now and I can’t tell you how thankful I am! We have had some rough nights but they are few and far between, and to be honest I’m grateful, otherwise I’d think I had a robot baby. As previously mentioned we have a schedule now that is for the most a well-oiled machine. We’re awake and downstairs for the day at 8:30, he has his breakfast and I have mine right after. We have about 30min. of play-time and then he takes a nap. From that time on it’s a pretty consistent pattern of eat-play-sleep every 2.5hrs with Mommy joining in on nap time around 11. The rest of the time I get things done around the house and manage to start dinner by the time Daddy gets home!  Bath around 7-7:30, followed by feeding, and then bed at 8-8:30! It seems to work pretty well for us and I can’t complain!

As if that’s not a gift in itself, my first Mother’s Day was wonderful! It got started early on Saturday night with the movie(that littlebutt slept through!), then on Sunday the three of us had a snuggle morning and I received my cards, a flower, and some minty treats(one pregnancy craving that never left). We all got dressed and I was surprised with another movie! We saw Babies, and if you’re a new parent expect lots of smiles and some tears. I loved it and Matthew did too, the both of us giggling and oohing/ahhing at the things our little man will be doing in the next year. I cried when they showed the mommies&babies first couple moments after birth, the first smile, and crawling/walking for the first time. After the movie (that littlebutt slept through!) we went and had dinner with the May’s! It was delicious and we always love hanging with them. Laura kissed all over Levi and Applesauce was never more than an arm’s distance away (he’s practicing for his new brother that will be here in about a month). After dinner we headed home for some more snuggles and my first Mother’s Day couldn’t have ended in a better way.

Matthew and I look at each other once a day and can’t believe how lucky we are. Lucky to be so in love with one another, lucky to have an amazing son that is healthy and happy, lucky to have people who love us, and lucky to share all this together.

Mema and Chief get here in 2 days, and we can’t wait to have a fabulous visit with them. I’m sure I’ll have lots to share after they leave and lots of pictures! Until next time- love you all, XOXO

baby higlet

p.s. our chubby son already weighs 10lbs 10oz. They guys have given him a nickname that I don’t think could be more perfect – “higlet”.

Advertisement