Quick Hello

So my employer has blocked a ton of websites at work, including this one, which really sucks! I usually would write a little something when I thought of it but now it will have to wait until I get a free minute in the evenings.

Will has been sleeping in his bed since Friday night. I put the air purifier that TJ and I had in our room, in William's room and I think that was the key. It was too quiet in his room and he was used to the noise. All has been well now. William is crawling on all fours pretty regularly and trying to pull up on everything. He loves being up on his feet. Geez, 8 months already! Guess time is just going to fly from now on.

Better keep this one short and sweet as I am pretty tired and ready to hit the sack. :)

Hangin With My Best Friend

Check out my top teeth!

Being a Working Mom is Starting to Suck

Now that William is older and more interative it is getting difficult for me to be away from him. I get to spend about 30 minutes with him before I head off to work which is always the best! He is so happy in the mornings. I work from 8:30a-5-ish and work has been kicking my ass for a while now. Before William was here, if I really needed to stay at work until 7pm then I would do it. Now, because I only get a few hours with him in the evening, I am usually out of work as close to 5pm as possible. If I am lucky, I get home around 5:30p but generally it's closer to 6pm. God forbid I have something to do after work. Will usually goes to sleep around 9pm but he has started getting really fussy around 8pm lately. TJ and I have mentioned maybe he needs to go to bed earlier. Now I am going to be looking at 2 hrs with him in the evening and that time is also to be shared with trying to clean the house, laundry, cooking dinner then cleaning up, feeding Will his dinner and then his bath. Not much quality time. I am sure every working mom feels this way but it really sucks. It leaves me with not wanting to do anything on the weekend if Will cannot be with me. Maybe this is the reason I have not put him in his room yet. :) I love having him near me every minute I can. He is increasingly interactive and I want to be there to teach him new things and to watch him as he learns.

Maybe it is for the best for both of us. Looks like instead of William, Mommy is having the separation anxiety. :)

Mother's Day

We were in Beaumont this weekend for a wedding so Mother's Day was pretty much spent in the truck driving home. TJ had a card hidden in the glove box and he gave it to me once we were on the road. It was a little card from William (made by his Mimi) and has his little hand prints in it. It was soo cute and of course, tears!

William did great on the trip to and from Beaumont. As usual, he did not want to go to sleep Friday and Saturday night because we were hanging out with friends and he knew there was something fun going on and he was NOT about to miss it! :) Both nights I think he went to bed around 10:30-ish.

The wedding we went to Saturday was for TJ's friend Tom Loftus. I ended up knowing the bride. She worked for a title company that we used to send all of our business to when I worked in Bmt. We had a great time at the wedding and the reception. I was excited to be able to drink and was really planning on cutting loose but that didn't happen. I guess I am just not interested in more than two drinks anymore. After not drinking for 9 months, I guess I just got used to it. Now when I have two beers, I get SO tired. Oh well, no real loss there I guess. :)

I left William with my mom Saturday. She watched him from about 1:30-9:30p. She loved it! She showed up with bags of toys and she said that he just bounced around from toy to toy. Grandma and Grandpa Malan said he loved Muffin the best (their little dog)! William definitely loves the dogs!


Will seemed to have a great time this weekend with his family. He sure took to his Aunt Shiny! Kisses and everything!! :) Can't wait to go back and see everyone again. A weekend is just not long enough especially with a 4 hr drive and an 8 month old! Whew.

On the way back to Austin, we stopped off in Smithville, where TJ spent his childhood. We dropped by their old house and tooka few pics with William in front of it. We also stopped off at a little diner in Bastrop to have lunch. William had the puffs! :)

Weekend

William and Mommy had a great weekend together. Saturday Daddy played in a golf tourney with Slate so we got to spend the entire day (and night) together. I had a list of places I wanted to run to Saturday but I was having a problem with my eye which made that a no-go. One place we did go is to get a pedi (because I had already left the house and was unaware about my eye problem until I was in the sunlight and driving- not good, I know). William and I met Mimi to get a pedi and William was a little angel as always. He was trying to get the red light at the bottom of my water tub and that was funny!


I had Mimi follow me home with William because I did not want to drive with him in the car in case the sun was too bright for my eye again and the rest of the day we cleaned, napped and played. Lately, Daddy and I have been able to put William in the corner of the chaise and he plays with his millions of toys but apparently that is no more....

I was right around the corner putting in a load of laundry and come back in to this! He had grabbed the picture frame and coasters from the BACK of the table and was pulling on the lamp!

The honeymoon is over!

Looks like no more Easy Street for Mommy and Daddy. :) I had a great time with him though. He has been a little much to handle in the evenings but that is because he has another top tooth that is about to come in so he is a little cranky. As long as you stand up holding him then he is GOLDEN! If you are walking around with him then he will be fine but try to put him down and it's another story. Can't tell if he is acting spoiled or just bored of his toys and wants to be entertained. Think it could be a little of both.

Will is also crying when he meets new people/someone he has not seen in a while. It's actually pretty damn cute because he makes the saddest little sad face you have ever seen! I always feel so bad when he does it to people but I guess it's normal from what I have read/heard. Stranger Danger!! :) Once the person ignores him then he just STARES them down. He will give a little teaser smile from across the room and I guess once he watches them long enough then he will let them hold him. I just cannot hand him off to people like I could when he was younger.

One thing that I have been selfishly enjoying is William has started to cling to me. He doesn't do it all the time but sometimes he will turn towards me and just grab a hold of me and bury himself. I love it. It's sweet. It makes me feel like a Mommy. :)

Sunday we met Slate, Dyna and Lonn for breakfast. We sat outside and it was sooo nice out. It was a good time. Didn't really do much Sunday but hung out at the house. Turned out to be a pretty lazy weekend but I've discovered that those are definitely the best!