Early!

Today was my first test where I had to drop both kids off, navigate LA morning traffic, and get to a meeting at 9:00am. Well I'm 10 minutes early! Woot woot!! (Of course school is out and so traffic is running at summer level and a little less than normal).

We had quite a fun weekend. Ellie had a blast up in AB at the
Natural History Museum and at a play date with the daughter of one of my HS friends who was in SB as well. We are all exhausted. Ellie slept in till 7:15 and struggled to wake up. And then she lounged around eating her breakfast. I wish my Monday mornings were just as chill as hers was this morning.



Calvin...Calvin, Calvin, Calvin...he has been a non-stop pooper. I am pretty sure that he pooped more over the weekend than he did in the month of May. He went from pooping every third day (or longer) to pooping (BIG poops) every other hour. Crazy kid! The photo below was at the play date yesterday. He's gonna hate that I posted this photo when he's older. Poop...it happens!



He also has changed his sleep habits (maybe ties to his pooping). Normally he would wake to eat once a night at around 2:00am. Saturday night he woke at 1 and then at 4 and then at 6:30. All with poop in his diaper and all hungry. Last night same thing. Well he's at daycare now and seemed happy about it. Despite not having his normal morning nap from 7:00am to 8:00am.



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Forget princesses

Ellie drew and interesting and detailed drawing yesterday.



It is a picture of her and some friends (one which has VERY short hair in real life) playing on a slide. However, one friend (short hair) fell off the slide and broke her leg and bled quite a bit on the playground (leaving a trail where she walked). However she now has crutches to help her walk.

Forget princesses...my little girl is now drawing pictures of hurt people and blood. When do I get concerned?

In other news Cal was a little sleep head this morning. Usually he is up at 6:00am, eats, and is awake for a whole and we snuggle and play. However, today he woke up to eat and promptly fell asleep again do I put him back in his crib.



We are starting to ween him off of the swaddling so I've been swaddling him with one arm out. Then I'll do both arms out. And then no more swaddle!

One thing that's fun about daycare is we have to label everything. Here is Cal's pacifier with its new label.



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Happy (early) Anniversary to me!

Nick takes off for Chicago today for the weekend to see some more Cubs games. Our 11th wedding anniversary is Saturday. I'll be in CA with two kiddos after my first full week back to work while Nick is in Chicago having fun with college buddies and crashing at their apartments in the city. Yeah, there was a little pressure on him gift-wise.

And he did not disappoint!







He finished and hung up one of the original windows from the house that we replaced last year. I had wanted to do this since the minute the windows came out. And he took it a step further into awesomeness and put up some family photos. Such a great surprise and so amazing.

Today at school Ellie showed me her writing booklet where she has been writing some sentences phonetically including, "we are going on the Ferris wheel, big dragon, and the bumper cars" and "grandma and grandpa are here. It's really fun."







Cal had a split personality at drop off. One moment he was crying and fussy, the next he was smiling, and then he started smiling while crying...









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Bag Lady

So I feel like a bag lady. When we leave the house in the morning I have no fewer than 5 bags to get to the car (my purse, pump, Ellies lunch, Cal's bottles, Cal's daycare bag with extra clothes/etc). Ellie helps by carrying her lunch and sometimes a second bag. But still it's arms full of bags, and then I have to carry Cal in his car seat as well. Pfew.



Again, at school Cal was shown off to Ellies friends. He was awake and everyone was excited to see his baby blues!






Once we got to Cal's daycare though he wasn't too happy. I think he was super tired (because he didn't really sleep this morning like he usually does).



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Bag Lady

So I feel like a bag lady. When we leave the house in the morning I have no fewer than 5 bags to get to the car (my purse, pump, Ellies lunch, Cal's bottles, Cal's daycare bag with extra clothes/etc). Ellie helps by carrying her lunch and sometimes a second bag. But still it's arms full of bags, and then I have to carry Cal in his car seat as well. Pfew.



Again, at school Cal was shown off to Ellies friends. He was awake and everyone was excited to see his baby blues!






Once we got to Cal's daycare though he wasn't too happy. I think he was super tired (because he didn't really sleep this morning like he usually does).



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Day 2

Yesterday apparently Cal did well at daycare. He took several short naps. Didn't have problems with the bottles (except for a little pushback from the first one). Only had one outfit change. He was one exhausted baby last night. He barely was in his car seat before he was asleep and then at home slept from 7:30 to 3:30am. These photos are from how I found him at daycare.









This morning he was a show and tell for Ellie and her friends at her school.




At daycare he was a happy baby when I left.












He loves when you tickle his cheek!

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First Day

For Ellie it is her first day of school on June.

For Cal it's his first day at daycare.

For me, it's my first (full) day back at work after Cal's birth.

At home the morning was just as crazy and chaotic as you would imagine it to be. But ever the awesome big sister, Ellie entertained Cal during morning tummy time.






Dropping Cal off at daycare was tough. It's tough to leave him after he has been my sidekick and constant companion for the past 12 weeks. But he did spit up on me...which made the process a little easier. When I left he was hanging out on a mat smiling at a crawling little girl who came by to say hi.












Of course we took a first day selfie.




Any bets on how many outfits he goes through?? I took 4 changes of clothes for him.

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