Day 154...meet new babysitter....again

Jun 23

Another fabulous day, as far as weather was concerned....even sprinkeled a little bit (I have not one problem with that.) It was one of those good days, where I was kind of busy, but not overwhelmed all day, and just stayed steady. That really helps the day go by nicely.

I'm getting excited, my mom is coming up tomorrow morning. I know I just was just down at her house a couple weeks ago, but I'm really excited for her to come and stay with us for a bit....and see our whole lives here in OR. The last time she came up was for our wedding in May of 2009. She didn't stay with us at all, and just had the time to come over and see our appartment once, she and Jack were pretty much only here for the weekend of the wedding.

Well we don't live in the appartment anymore, and we have a lot more room for her to come visit. She gets to stay in the man cave....I'm smiling.

When I got home tonight, I had a plan for us to go over to the potentially new baby sitter's house and meet her. Martyn was asleep on the couch, and I guess he had just gone to sleep. We didn't need to leave right away, but I didn't want to wake him up either. He looked so peaceful sleeping there. I could watch him sleep like that, for hours. I just love his sweet little face. Thankfully, I didn't have to wake him up, he heard me talking to Eli and woke up on his own. He was happy, I guess he just needed a little cat nap. Seriously though, he was just all smiles and bubbles....Eli said he was really chatty all day today.

We went and met the lady, and we both like her though we're also a little concerned because she is planning on having several kids who are older (like toddler age, and a little older) and if she took Martyn, he would be the only baby she had. The concern lies in that I am choosing to wait until he's 6 months to start him on Vaccinations. Which has been totally fine, since he's not in any kind of daycare setting....but that would be kind of like daycare. I'm not terribly worried about it, but the idea did give me a bit of pause. I think Eli was more concerned about it than I was. It's not set in stone that she will take him either. We're going to do another test run/date night next week on my birthday, and see how it goes.

I like her, and I don't want to keep looking for a babysitter, but we shall see. Mom will be here to watch Martyn for next week, and the following week I have monday off so that's good. We have a bit of time to figure it out.

Eli cleaned up the living room fantastcially yesterday, that was really nice to come home too. It's amazing how good it feels to be in a room that is clean and neat and (semi) orderly. It totally made me feel like a big burden was lifted off me, and it was relaxing to hang out in the living room. Now that makes it sound like our house was just a big awful mess....which it kind of was, but mostly just cluttery (and dog hairy). We have hardwood floors, so the dog hair shows, but it's easy enough to take care of....we're just lazy, ha!

Martyn was so happy tonight, it was refreshing. I didn't nurse him in the bed to sleep, but I did in my lap. He was just so peaceful sleeping in my lap. I read a bunch of stuff about co-sleeping, and switching over to the crib after co-sleeping, and kind of realized that I had been feeling rushed a bit, to move him out of the bed. I decided like with the rice meal, that it's not a big rush. I think he will benefit more if we just take our time in moving him out of the bed. He's doing really well with it so far, but I think he'll do better if he isn't rushed. I also decided I'm not going to try any more ricemeal or anything until we get a highchair....which we will get from Rachel this weekend. So maybe on Saturday, at our birthday bash, I'll give him a little something more. We'll see.