July 22nd, 2011
Changes
A lot has changed since I last wrote. Camille is 4 months old and she has already traveled across the country and moved into her second home. If you are thinking of waiting until you have a 3 month old and are about to go out of town to move, I suggest you DO NOT DO THAT. Worst weekend of my life. We basically just powered through on no sleep or food. It was almost a relief to get on that plane Sunday night and just sit. Until Camille started freaking out and not sleeping. : ) Luckily that only lasted for about an hour and I finally just continuously fed her until she had no choice but to sleep. Then she slept the rest of the flight while I watched bad TV and made sure Frenchie didn’t drop her while they both slept.
Our vacation to Oregon was wonderful. She did not seem bothered by the time change at all and she slept great after all the daily stimulation and new people. The weather was absolutely gorgeous and the strawberries were delicious. Camille got to meet her cousin and it was love at first sight.
It was also really fun to spend time with Margot, my niece, who turned 6 while we were there!
Camille also took her first hike. We borrowed a friend’s jogging stroller which had great suspension and got us through some rough trail. Well, it wasn’t really rough trail, just a little rough for a stroller.
We took a red eye back to Boston, which was rough for Frenchie and I but fine for Camille since she just slept the whole way, and found our new home in total disarray. We have slowly made our way through all the boxes except for Camille’s stuff. Frenchie says her room looks like a squash court because it is so empty. I need to decide what sort of book/toy storage I want and we still need to buy a crib. Unfortunately that requires decision making ability and money, neither of which we have. Luckily I suppose Camille does not really know the difference.
I have also been distracted from organizing the new house with an almost crippling anxiety about going back to work in August and sending Camille to daycare. After a couple days of agonizing, I finally made the decision that I need to at least start off working part-time and see how that goes. So far my supervisor has been very supportive. Unfortunately, the daycare we had lined up does not do part time so I also have to find a new childcare solution! In the next 2 weeks. I guess I should have made this decision sooner but I was in total denial that August was actually going to arrive. Yet it is looming in my 15 day Accuweather forecast and I can no longer sleep. I am sad and jealous that Camille will be spending her days with somebody besides me, I am worried she is going to get sick, I am worried that I won’t remember how to do my job, and I really do not want to wear real shoes again. More complains, complains.
Luckily I have this precious baby smile to remind me that life is, in fact, really good.
Camille’s 4 month birthday snuck up on me so I decided at the last minute to make a lemon meringue pie because we had a lot of lemons. It turns out lemon meringue pie and high humidity do not mix (duh) so it turned out pretty awful. Still, here are the pictures of a very tired 4 month old and her pie.
