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Have I said enough that I love being home? Well I do! Sadly, I go back to work in a few weeks. It's bitter sweet because I love my job and all of my wonderful volunteers but it will be hard to leave my baby! But not to worry because when I win the HGTV 2011 dream home next week I will be able to leave and go vacation in Vermont! I'm just trying to think positively.

So I really thought I would have this huge amount of time to do so many things while on maternity leave. I imagined scrapbooking (I still haven't finished my wedding album), and cooking awesome meals, and having the cleanest house ever, and organizing everything better. But if I watch another episode of CSI I might go insane. Who knew that I would spend most of my day holding this baby while sitting on the couch. I am just now getting to do some things and I have to go back to work. Blah!

I better make the best out of the next few weeks! I love this little guy so much it will be a sad day on the first day back. I need a raise.

7 Weeks Old

It has been a long time since I wrote on my blog. I now realize how naive I was to think "after he comes I will have so much free time while on maternity leave to write on my blog." Yup I was naive. I love this boy. He has gotten huge!! We went to the doctor two weeks ago for a weight check and he was 12 pounds at 5 weeks! HUGE!!!! I know he is over 12 pounds now because I can feel it in my back : ) I was sad to put him in his 3 to 6 month clothes. It really made me realize how fast he is going to grow up. It has been such an amazing 7 weeks. I have had nights with 2 hours of sleep, nights where I was scared to death he wasn't breathing, I have been puked, pooped, and peed on, I have cried when he wouldn't stop crying because I didn't know how to help him, I have already had a panic attack about going back to work, but I have totally fallen in love. He has started to smile and it is the best thing in the whole world. He has started cooing and I love it. I absolutely LOVE dressing him in cute outfits. I have a hard time not buying something cute when it is on sale : ) He is so stinking cute. He looks so much like his dad to me it is crazy. I love to watch Josh with him - I can tell that they are going to be best buds. I really love this little guy. He has a death grip when it comes to my hair. He gets little baby snores some times. I hate his little baby tears when he cries. I love to sing songs to him and read him books. Oh this is going to be quite the ride!

On a different note. I have been desperately trying to get healthy. Everyone keeps telling me not to lose weight but I am trying to be genuinely healthy. It has been so great. Yes, I have lost a bunch of weight but I feel good. I want to be in good shape and healthy for the summer so that I can have lots of energy for this little guy. Plus it will be summer!!

I will try to stay up on my blog.... But I will leave you with a gummy smile from the little guy

The things I am learning about boys

Well Landon is almost 3 weeks old. I can't believe how fast time has gone by! But he is still really little. So I grew up in a family with all girls and out here in Utah I am surrounded by all nieces so I don't have much experience with boys. I feel like I have learned so much in the past three weeks. First off, I could not figure out why he kept peeing through his diaper and it was always his stomach that was soaked. It should have just been common sense but how was I supposed to point his boy parts down!?! Once that problem was solved I felt pretty confident in my diaper changing abilities that was until the other day. I was changing Landon and all of a sudden he started to pee! The sad part was he was peeing right at his face and he got it all over himself! It was so funny but so sad at the same. We had to do a little sponge bath and right as we started he peed all over me! How can this kid have so much pee in that little bladder?! He is a gassy one too so I know that it will be great fun when he is older and he will try to gross me out.

I love his little snores at night and the way he coos when he sleeps. I love when he looks right in to my eyes and I swear he can see me. It always makes us laugh when he tries to focus on two things at once and he goes cross eyed for a second. He is so freaking cute! But I now cover him with a wipe every time I change him so we are both kept dry : )