I have one hour and 20 minutes until I'm ALL BY MYSELF WITH CALEB!!! Lol. We'll see how it goes...I may not be able to get on here for a while!!! I made a big pot of stew because that may be the last real, home-cooked meal Dave and I get until my mom comes back in March. Today I have my first day of taking Caleb in the car by myself to pick up Dave. I'm sure all of these things will become easy to me eventually, but for now it's all NEW. This morning Dave says, "Well, I guess you gotta bring Caleb when you come to pick me up." It's not even something we thought about before because my mom would always be here to stay home with him while I ran an errand or picked Dave up...not anymore!!! Wow. Tomorrow will be the real test...a FULL day without anyone but me and Caleb. And tonight will be the first night he sleeps in his crib instead of in our room in the bassinet...of course, I'm going to sleep in the other room with him...don't know yet if Dave is going to sleep with us, or if he's going to bask in the silence of our room without me and Caleb in there.

Sleep for the past couple nights....well, he's slept in his bassinet again...no more sleeping on me and breaking my back. He's able to get in one semi-long sleep...about 4-4.5 hours after we feed him he'll get up again. Then after that feeding it's the regular 3 hour feedings. So what sucks is like last night...he ate at 6:45 so we figured he'd get up at 9:45ish to eat again, then have his long sleep. Nope. He got up at 11:45, fussed, cried, then ate. Dave took that feeding because no way would he be able to do the 2:45 or 5:45 one since he had to work. So I got up for those two (thank you GOD for helping him not be a fuss bucket at the 2:45 one!)...and at the 5:45 one I just had to stay up from there because Dave was getting up at 6:45 anyways and I had to take him to work. It wouldn't be so bad if I was like Dave and could sleep once my head hit the pillow, but that's just not how I am...and of course, because Caleb's in the bassinet right next to me and I can hear him moving (and because he's on his tummy), I'm checking after every movement to make sure his head is positioned correctly. Luckily I got to take a little nap while my mom fed him at 8:45ish.

So...we'll see how I fare for the rest of the week by myself...