Springing into Spring

The last few weeks have been very busy ones.  I faced the difficult returned to work after 8 great weeks on bonding with my son.  The adjustment has been very hard since I’m so use to knowing what Dominic is doing every minute.   I had to deal with the fact that I am not going to be able to watchDominic grow and learn during the busy work days.  Luckily, we have a great family that has helped with this transition and we still get the mornings, nights and weekends to play.

                                               

It has been great to start working with my colleagues again.  I’ve had a lot to catch up on, which has filled my days and helped the transition.  My co-workers all love to see pictures of Dominic and we’ve even been able to Skype and Facetime!

Dominic has spent the majority of his days with Mark’s mom Donna (AKA Nana), with visits to Lauren and Leah sprinkled in.  I have been dropping Dominic off at Donna’s at 8am each morning armed with clothes, blankets and enough milk to make a cow jealous.  Dominic spends most of his time at Nana’s house but does make trips to “The Shop” to see his Bampa and helps drive Brian (Mark’s brother) to and from work.  At 5pm Donna drops off Dominic and the work day ends for me.  This is the best part of every day!

Over the last week Donna has been soaking up the sun in Florida.  Luckily, Lauren (Mark’s sister) and Leah (Mark’s cousin) were able to watch Dominic for a day.  We are sooo thankful for their help and could not have made it through the week without them.  It’s times like these we know we made the right decision when we moved back from Colorado.

Over the past weekend we were visited by Aunt Annie (AKA Tia).  She flew in from Philadelphia in order to see Dominic, Mark and myself.  It was great that she got to spend so much quality time with Dominic.  We spent much of Saturday in historic downtown Nashua…. eating good food and drinking great wine, while catching up with each other and passing Dominic around.  We missed Uncle Tom but we know we will get to see him very soon.  Hopefully the Ambrose family will be down in PA this summer.

 

 

Im 8 Weeks Old

  Today Dominic is 2 months old and he is growing by leaps & bounds!!

He loves to learn everyday through various ways.  Dominic LOVES his trips to the library and gets to see all his friends.  Every Thursday Dominic and I attend “Mommy and Me Read together”.  It is 30 minute sessions where the kiddies sing songs, listen to mommies read a book and at the end, we all play with bubbles.  Dominic does tend to zone in and out with some shut eye but I know he is listening.  When we do pick out our library books and head home, we sit in our rocking chair and I read while he just takes it all in.

 

 

 

                Since introducing the pacifier and continuing to really focusing on our belly and back play time, Dominic has gotten much stronger and is learning about what his arms can really do.  I have noticed when the pacifier leaves his mouth he uses his forearm to help put it back in and it is such an amazing thing to watch.  When we do play, he talks baby talk …(aka happy screams)… he has defiantly gotten louder and he even jumps at times at his noises.  He also on occasion has giggled and laughed with smiles that were not caused by gas.

                                          

                Since Marks mom will be helping us out and watching Dominic, we have introduced “the bottle” and he is a drinking champ.  Unfortunately, the bottle has led to a lot more burping!  On one of his burping sessions Dominic had an explosive burp which spewed milk all down daddy’s back. 

                                                          (sorry daddy)