There's nothing better in the world than being away from your baby for 2 days, for her to come home to Mommy and be more than excited to see me. It's the first time that when Matt brought her home from being at his house for her two days every other week visit with him, that she ran to me when she saw me and hugged me, and I mean hugged me like never before, for a whole 5 minutes! And kissed me many times and said she missed me and she loved me. I took that moment in, and carved it into my memory, so that I will never forget it! It felt amazing!
Being away from her for those two days every other week is hard, but I definitely need the break most of the time. I hate to say that I enjoy those two days, to be alone, to do whatever I want to (even though the two days that she is gone, I am at work both days for 8 hours), and to get a whole night's sleep, without being woken up 40 times a night. So, yes, I enjoy the silence, but the best part about not being with her, is seeing her again when she gets home, and especially tonight, when she made me realize just how much she misses me too when she is gone to Daddy's.
She is growing up so fast! And not seeing her for two days...well it's hard to believe how much two days makes a difference! Even though she talked a lot two days ago, it seemed like she talked 10 times better tonight! I love that about children. How us parents have front row seats to the best show we could ever see - watching our babies grow up. I love it! Being a Mommy is the best gift I've ever dreamed of, and Alexis is just so amazing!
Ever since I took her crib away and gave her a big girl bed, sleeping has just not been good. I knew that it wouldn't be that great, and the change was going to be difficult for her, but I never dreamed of it being THIS hard! Her first couple nights were great. She went to bed good and slept all night, but was getting up at 5am. 5am turned into 430am and then 330am, and she started waking up to come and sleep in bed with me. She makes me sit next to her bed until she falls asleep. I don't mind doing that, but it sucks doing it in the middle of the night, when she really doesn't want to sleep in her bed anymore, but in Mommy's bed. The more tired I am, the easier to give in to her wishes of sleeping in bed with me are easier to give into. It's a tough battle, that I always lose. I have never been so tired in my life. Even when she was a newborn, and the 19 months she slept like crap, this month has been the roughest! And it sucks when she comes home from Matt's and he says she slept in her big girl bed there all night, with no peep. I don't understand!!!!!
So, she has a big girl bed in a big girl Princess room! And she loves it, and I love it. It's not officially finished yet, until after Christmas, but it's definitely cute!
I am so excited for her to experience Christmas this year! I can't wait to see her face on Christmas morning when she sees all her presents under the tree for her! I went all out this year! And it's awesome, I know she enjoys opening presents, as she has been to a few birthday parties over the last month, and helped open all of their presents!
My baby is VERY into Tangled right now. It's the first big kid movie that she ever really watched more than 5 minutes of, before she told me to turn it off. Every time I would try to turn off treehouse to watch a different channel, she freaked out, but Tangled....Oh Tangled plays in our house 5 times a day. She doesn't watch the whole thing of course, she comes and goes, but when it's over, she knows, and tells me to she wants it on again. She loves Rapunzel so much, she calls it "Mypunzel" LOL! She is going to LOVE the Rapunzel doll I got her for Christmas!
Anyways, I better to go to bed before she wakes up AGAIN!
xoxo
