Last Week of Maternity Leave = Bittersweet

Elizabeth is 10 weeks old today.  This is my last week off before returning to work on December 3rd.  I have very mixed feelings.  I'm looking forward to getting back to work (being a stay at home mom is hard!) but I know I will miss her so much.  I hate thinking about handing her off to people she doesn't know on Monday morning :(  She'll be going to a daycare right down the road that a lot of our friends have used. 

A lot has happened the past couple of weeks:

She had her 2 month birthday!  Her check up at the doctor was great.  She weighed 10lbs 4oz and is a very healthy, growing baby girl.  She is a skinny little thing in the 18 percentile for weight (50 for head and length) but she is following her growth curves perfectly.

 

She has become a very big helper around the house. Like helping with laundry and entertaining herself while I get some things done:

She also had her first roadtrip down to Augusta for Thanksgiving.  She finally got to meet a lot of her family that loves her so much including Big Papa.  She was great in the car and a trooper in the different environment.

She also had her first visit to Santa.  She was NOT happy about her Christmas dress:

Here's a few more pics from the last couple of weeks:



All Smiles!

Time is going by so fast!  Elizabeth will be 8 weeks on Monday.  We are seeing more and more smiles from her each day and she is even starting to laugh a little.  It is the sweetest thing ever.  Sleep is still hit or miss.  She loves her naps and slept from 11-7 last night!  But we still have nights where I'm up with her 2-3 times.

Here is a progression of some of the smiles we have gotten the past couple of weeks:

A lot of you have asked about the dogs.  They aren't getting as much attention as they used to, but at least they have each other.  I can't wait for Elizabeth to notice and play with them (and feed them and walk them :))

Elizabeth continues to be the Good Luck Charm for the Falcons:

Halloween was pretty uneventful as Elizabeth slept through the trick or treaters coming to the door.  I'm sure it will be a different story next year!

On a not so fun note, I had to go in for emergency surgery this week.  My c-section incision was getting infected.  We thought that we took care of it a few weeks ago with antibiotics, but the infection came back and got a lot worse over the weekend.  They had to cut me back open Tuesday night and I had to stay in the hospital until Wednesday afternoon.  I missed Elizabeth so much while I was there, but I had to do this to get better.  Hopefully the surgery has solved the problem and I will continue to heal from here on out.  I have a nurse coming to the house daily to take care of my wound and my mom is here thank goodness.  I just keep telling myself that it could be a lot worse!  But, this ordeal might make Elizabeth an only child haha!