My little Monkey Princess

 

Yesterday was my first day back to work at Stone Age. River had only 1 day of practice with a bottle. I had to work two 2 hour shifts with a 3 hour break between them. Needless to say I was worried. I made sure to spend some quality time with her before I left. We read our high contrast (black and white) book called "Fish and Canoe" and I took lots of pictures. I fed her right before I left and she was somewhat asleep.

When my first shift was over I met Daddy and Baby at Best Buy...one of many many errands they ran that day. Just as I came into the store and called Chris' name, I walk up and River opens her eyes and starts fussing. Apparently that was the first time she'd been awake since I'd left. So I fed her again in my car and then at the Super Cuts (yet another errand). I spent some time putting her back to sleep and I was off again for my second shift.

As I expected, this one went just fine, but not as smoothly. They ran more errands together, but a lot of them were done with one of Daddy's fingers in the mouth! When they got home, Chris successfully fed her her second bottle ever! Way to go! When I got home, dinner was ready and baby was asleep.

The rest of the night she was a little fussy but nothing like the last few nights have been. We watched Black Swan as I finally got River to sleep at around 1030pm (Fastest yet!). I kept waking up throughout the night during the times she usually wakes up...but she was sound asleep.  

All in all, a good first day back to work. Next Friday I work a full 4 hour shift. As I'm writing this, she is in her swing, asleep making really cute cooing noises.