So, Taylor is 5 weeks old already!! I can't believe how fast it has gone already. Every moment had been amazing. I must admit, it has tested me a few times. People can tell you, but you don't fully understand the stress and work it takes with a newborn. Oh how life changes! I am watching each hour waiting for the next time to feed her. Oh and sleep, well should I say lack there of.... it is just amazing how your body can adjust to a few hours of sleep a night. I find myself the next day tired, but just as happy as if I had slept 8 hours. Just one look at her beautiful face is all I need to push through another day and long night. Crying.... As a couple with no children we got so annoyed by crying children in restaurants. Now we don't even notice. We have an appreciation for crying babies and the work that goes into it.(lol) My favorite change in myself and Zach is how much more we appreciate each other and our lives! She has changed everything, the way we actually slow down to enjoy life, how much our patience has increased and how great we work together as a team. We just love her so much and don't know how we could love someone anymore!! We are so happy to have her and don't really know what we did before!
who does she look like?Everyone has a different opinion on who she looks like! I just can't tell. I see similar features from the both of us. Only time will tell! We are wondering if her eyes will stay the pretty blue or not. Zach has brown eyes and mine are a brown/green. I hope they stay blue, but I am betting they change in the next month or so!
On to the sad subject. I start back to work on Monday. I am glad to go back to work because I LOVE my job. I am so lucky to have ended up in such a great clinic. But what I think about is that Sunday is my last day to ONLY be Taylor's mommy! Do I want to be a stay at home Mom? I don't really think so. I am proud of my career and all the work I have done to get there. It is not nearly as rewarding as my wonderful baby, but very rewarding in itself. If it was possible it would be easy to stay home for the first 2 years and then go back to work it would be worth it. But this is all my thinking during my nervousness to go back to work. I will get used to it but Monday is going to be hard. We are very lucky in that she is going to be staying with my good friends sister at her home with her 2 children. I am so glad that we didn't have to send her to a daycare with 30 other infants! That does make the process a whole lot easier. We know and trust Becky, also I know Becky won't mind if I call her 15 times a day to check on Taylor!
my favorite picture!
Ok I really am going to try to blog a lot more! Oh when Taylor was 3 weeks old I had some pictures made of her the website is http://www.photographybyjuliejones.com/ go into print shop. You will have to register at her site but this only takes a few minutes. The access log is: taylorlease. I hope you like them I know I loved them!! Now I just have to decide which ones to buy!
