boom.

so, just like that, i’m back in business.   i booked two jobs – one starts tomorrow and goes through 2/6.  the next starts monday and goes through the end of march.   the first one is 90% work from home, which is very good, and the 2nd one will require both aaron & i to travel to NY & NJ for a few days, which means joaquin will be staying with my MIL … which is very weird to think about.   in 20 weeks, the longest i have been away from him is maybe 5 or 6 hours.   three days will seem like an eternity.   that trip looks like it will happen the week of 2/25, so i have some time to get used to the idea.

so, yay, work!   but also: i’m going to be SO BUSY starting tomorrow and it won’t let up until almost april.   yikes.   i knew that we would book overlapping projects!   such is the state of my world.   but i am not compaining.  yet.

in anticipation of the upcoming work stuffs, i had joaquin stay home with me all day yesterday to spend some quality time.  normally i welcome 2-3 hours of me time when he goes to my MIL’s house in the morning, but i wanted him all to myself yesterday and it was so lovely. i didn’t get anything done, but it didn’t matter.   

in other fascinating news, i’ve dropped another pound, and so now i’m only 5.4lbs from my pre-preggers weight.  very exciting.  only 7.4lbs to my goal weight.   boom.

joaquin is 20 weeks old today.   time is FLYING by.. and it’s been so amazing to see him grow.   he is now regularly rolling over – mostly from back to tummy, but he’s been doing both.  he thinks he’s so cool, i love it!  he’s also getting so proficient in using his hands to grab things and stick them immediately in his mouth.  we have to be so careful about what’s within arm’s reach when we are changing his diapers these days.  he’s like a damn octopus.

in not-so-good news, his sleep seems to be all effed up again. i have no idea what we are doing wrong, but he was up every 1-2 hours again last night.   NO BUENO.   i’m so worthless today, and i was so angry when he woke up for the 4th time last night.   i’m terrible with this type of sleep and i hate that i can’t just take a few breaths and deal with it.   instead i was a crying baby myself once he fell back asleep, so instead of getting an hour of sleep before he woke up again, i was just awake with teary eyes instead.   ugh.   blergh.    i ordered a new sleeping item for him that is supposed to help transition him out of his swaddle (i’m thinking maybe now that he can roll he wants more freedom in the crib)…so hopefully it arrives, like, yesterday.

ahhhhhhhhh i miss sleep so much,    thank god for coffee.