Almost Over

I am sitting here on a Saturday night thinking I should blog while all is quiet in the house. Johnny is sleeping, Brian is at his friend's house watching UFC, Duffy and Sonny are having a sleepover and are on the couch, and I am here with my delicious glass of Chardonnay. My night will consist of surfing the internet for a new purse and watching some Tivo'd shows. Right now I am very content but I have to say I am getting a little anxious about the fact that life will be changing once again in a week. That is I will be completing my maternity leave and heading back to work.

It has been the fastest and happiest 5 months of my life and while I would love to be at home with Johnny I am truly excited to go back to work. I am excited to be with my team again, be busy, settle into my new office and accomplish more than just changing a diaper without getting peed on. I mean there hasn't been alot of mental stimulation these days which has been great but I do need to rengage again. However with that said I am getting anxious because I have no idea how I am going to balance it all with work and a baby. I have to find time to get ready, feed the baby, get to meetings, pump at work, somehow workout, cook something healthy for dinner, get my work done, sleep, and spend time with my family. I don't know if 24 hours in a day is enough. Thank god for my mother who is going to be my nanny.

So anyways this last week of being on maternity leave I am going to try and not stress out about how I am going to make it all work and just enjoy my time with Johnny. We have had so much fun together and I know he will have a great time with grammies. Good thing for my mom's phone as I will expect lots of daily picture texts and videos.

Bath Time

My new favorite time with Johnny is bath time. For some reason I think he is so handsome when his little hair do is slicked back and his eyes are so blue. Plus he splishes and splashes and is so happy in the tub. Normally at home we have this little plastic baby tub that doesn't let him kick around but when we were in Maui he had to lay in the big tub with a towel under his head. He loved it so much and so I am going to go buy something that lays in the big tub for him at home. Had to share some of my fav pics of little handsome Johnny. (Had to leave out the "privates" even though he is a baby per my husband. Johnny will thank him later when he is grown up)

Our Frequent Flyer

I think that I am the luckiest parent in the world because my baby is so easy and will just tag along anywhere we go. He really proved himself by being the perfect traveler this last week when we took him to Maui. This is now his 2nd trip where he did perfect in airport and the plane as well as throughout all of the festivities. My mom came with us on the trip which was such a blessing because she spent so much time loving on him and allowed us to get away for some date nights. I feel so blessed to have such an easy baby but know that this probably means my 2nd baby will be the complete opposite so we are living it up now. Johnny will probably have one more trip this year to see Papa and Noni for Christmas since he has proven to be able to handle it.

Maui was a different trip this year having a little one in tow and everything we did felt like we were saying "oh I can't wait until Johnny can do this next year". Since he is under 6 months you can't put sunscreen on him so exposing him to the sun was a no no so we made sure to keep in the shade which the non-sun worshipper (grandma) did most of the time. Next year we want to play with him in the pool and take him to the beach and let him play in the sand. We did dip his toes in the pool for a little bit which he seemed to like. We had a little ritual in Maui since it was so hot to let Johnny have nudy time so that he could let his skin breathe and that meant no diaper. I am too lazy to post more pics of the trip since I just did on Facebook so I only have one which is of Johnny enjoying nudy time during the World Series. I just can't help loving his little Jabba the Hut belly. :)