So my attempt at being Doogie Howser and journaling every night hasn’t been easy. Let me say that again, it hasn’t happened at all.
Eve is 20 days old today and every day seems to be an adventure all onto it’s own. She is healthy and growing well. It’s been really neat watching a little person grow. She is still very tiny and petit and you almost feel like she is a porcelain doll.
I always thought of myself as really prepared and everyday I feel more and more like I have no idea what I’m doing. I’m used to flying in, being as “out there” as I can be, attempting to win the kids over and then leaving and going home. It’s a whole new ball game when you can’t leave 🙂

As I mentioned Eve is doing well. We had our last appointment until she is 2 months old with the pediatrician on Monday and he is very happy with where she is at in her development. I on the other hand was looking for some reassuring words.

On Sunday we took Eve to the Santa Clause parade. Yes, yes, yes, I realize she wouldn’t see or remember any of it but it was a beautiful, mild evening and we wanted to go for a walk. Little did I know it had been a while since I changed her bum. As a rule of thumb cloth diapers (which we had started to transition towards) need to be changed about every 2 hours and disposables 3 to 4 hours. Well I made a booboo; as we walked to the parade route she was crying and we figured she would calm down as we walked. After watching about 30 minutes of the parade we started to head back home. Something was wrong and we didn’t know what. By the time we got home she had been crying (off and on) for almost 90 minutes. As we went to change her I found the cause of the crying. Her little bum was very raw and I had left the diaper on too long. I felt terrible. All of a sudden I felt very ill equipped to deal with a baby. This leads me back to Dr. Bialik’s words “Don’t worry, you’re doing great, everyone goes through this”. He is very good with the kids and the frantic new parents.

It’s been a pretty low-key week.
On Tuesday friends of ours brought us dinner from SupperWorks. We are so blessed with the friends and family we have. After a short visit we went over to Nana’s house. Nana just needed some cuddles so again we went for a short visit.
On Wednesday we took our first out of town trip. Sue needed to go to Queens and so while we were there got to visit with friends. We were given some beautiful gifts, which we will treasure forever.
All these adventures lead us to today, Black Friday. All day Thursday Leon’s had advertisements for a Sofa for $177. We struggled with it because we are in need of a new one but didn’t really have the money. The couch we have right now is easily 15 years old and has been through many houses, roommates, spills, etc.…
I took the plunge, I got up at 4am, arrived at Leon’s at 4:20am and there wasn’t a soul there. It wasn’t until 6am that someone other than myself showed up. We got in line and by 6:30am the line was half way down the building. By 7am when the doors open there must have been 100 people in line. All that to say, I was #1 and I got my new sofa. I can’t wait until next Wednesday when they deliver it.

Now I am exhausted and running on coffee, blogging when I should be napping and loving every minute of it.