48-Hour Days

I seriously need 48 hours in my days, as opposed to the given 24. I need to be able to sleep for about 10 hours a day, go to work and be away from home for 8+, and then have the rest of it to be with my baby, bathe my dogs, do laundry, and clean my house. Who can I talk to about getting this change made?

Baby Bean, as always, is doing awesome. She has been super fussy the last three days, which is a real bummer since it started Friday when I was able to leave work early to come home and be with her. Wait, back up. I did get to leave work early because we had our annual R&D awards "banquet" in which my team won numerous awards. (Go team!) However, the banquet was 86'ed this year due to financial constraints, so it turned into a pot luck at a coworker's house. I digress. By the time I got home at 3:30 part of me was kind of praying Baby Bean would be asleep so I could sneak in a quick nap. Praise be to heaven, the child was OUT. So I mosied off to bed, guilt-free. At 5:30 Hubs came and woke me up to go to dinner. Well, he kind of woke me up because my body refused to wake up. He and I managed to drag my butt to dinner, and then back home where I curled back up on the couch and quickly went back to sleep. I was way too tired to feel guilty. I woke up long enough to spend some time with Baby Bean, feed her, and get her into bed, and then was in bed myself very shortly after that. Luckily she still loves me.

"Mom, you are the bestest EVER!"

That was the last I saw of the Happy Baby for the weekend. Enter "Fuss Puss."

"Do I really look like I could ever be a fussy baby? Really?"

Please notice in the above picture that Baby Bean is successfully bringing her hands together. Yay Baby!!! She has yet to go through that phase where she looks at her hands for hours on end. I just don't think she cares. She does, however, grab things, and manages to hold her fingers in her mouth in an attempt to self-soothe and put herself to sleep. The fact that she can do both of those things leads me to believe she won't have the "What is this? A hand?" phase. She is already mastering the ability to pinch things between her thumb and index finger, which is a bit ahead of the curve. Go baby girl! Yes, I am indeed a proud mommy.

"Gosh, I sure love you mom. I love that you are so proud of my

accomplishments and make such a big deal out of them."

As for me, my hair has started to fall out. As promised by the books, it is falling out by the handful. I guess my dogs read the book too and decided they didn't want to be left out because they are shedding like crazy too. Perhaps we should have a competition to see who can shed the most.

Well, I just finished baking some cookies and Baby Bean just woke up from her nap, so I am off to snack and play. Ta ta!

P.S. If you were lucky enough to catch the Internal Debate post before I took it down (no I'm not talking about the size one, but the freaking out one), I had a neg pg test this morning. Phew!