I did it! Completed my first week at my new job that is! It was hard, but satisfying. I will be in training for a few more weeks, but the adult interaction is great! But I did break down and cry every night as I held my sleepy boy and told him how much I love him. I spend most of my days in training staring at pictures of Caleb and Dean together. Next week is a short week, we have a few half days, and on Thursday, which is Caleb’s first half day at daycare, I only work a few hours, so it will be nice. We can drop him off in the morning before I have to be at work, then pick him up when I get off. I figure it will be good for him to be left there and then for us to pick him up together, that way even if its not a full day he can see that we will be back for him together later. Afterall babies dont know the difference between 8 hrs and 4 hrs, so I think it is good that his first day will be a short day for me since I know I will be spend most of my time at work thinking about that anyway!
The puppy is a handful to say the least. He’s getting better about having “accidents” in the house. He always go potty outside when we take him but sometimes, mostly when he wakes us up during the night we dont realize the urgency in his need to go out and we pay the price. Caleb is learning to mimic well now. He learned how to spin around from watching Sesame Street, that or watching the dog chase his tail! He’s taken to a lot of doglike behaviors, some which disturb me because it just shows he needs interaction with other kids. He has taken to holding his toy balls in his mouth and pretending to bite mommy and daddy like the doggy nips at mommy and daddy. He laughs all the while so we know he realizes he is playing. He also takes to teasing the puppy. He knows which toys are the dogs so he will take them and run away from the dog, after dangling the toy in front of the dog for a few minutes, and as he runs he laughs and runs faster if you try to catch him. There’s a lot of jealousy between the dog and baby, and suprisingly the dog seems happier to see me when I get home from work than the baby does, but oh well.
Caleb is definitely changing as a result of being cared for by a daddy all day than by a mommy. He’s much more playful and happy than he was with me, but I think that has a lot to do with the fact Dean is much more rough and lenient w/ him. Not to mention mommy tried to make sure the house got cleaned and laundry done and tend to baby so I know daddy is spending more time tending to baby and dog than I would be, which is sad to know because I wonder if I didnt do as good a job as I could have being a SAHM. I think I may have focused too much on a clean house and getting things done around the house than playing w/ my baby. And the first few nights after work I would come home and clean house and prepare my lunch for work the next day and before I’d know it it would be bed time and I hadnt spent hardly any time w/ my son. Come Wednesday I realized my fault and put off cleaning up until Caleb was in bed, if we could get him in bed. It’s been hard to settle him down with the puppy. He will see the puppy playing at bed time and think he can play too. Dean has been putting the puppy outside to play more now since he was having a hard time keeping the two apart so they wouldnt hurt each other or the house, and the dog seems to like to be outside most of the time. Hopefully we can get him more used to it so maybe he wont have to stay cooped up in his kennel all day once we both are working. Speaking of which, Dean had a second interview today for the job he hopes to get. Sounds like he will more than likely get an offer for it, he wont find out til Monday though. In the meantime, we are going to have a relaxing weekend. Hope you do too!
