What a day! This was the big one…my first day really being back to work. Like getting up, getting ready, getting Avery ready, and getting us both out the door…that kind of back to work. All in all things went pretty well…actually let me restate that…considering how crazy things were today, I’m feeling very good about this back to work thing!
Let’s see, first I woke up not sure what I was supposed to do today since I have no samples, no concrete list of doctors I call on, no program to enter my calls into…not even business cards. But being a hardcore rep I figured who needs all that stuff anyways, all I need is me and my superior selling ability…oh yeah, and my boss told me go ahead and hit the road anyways. So I had to use a list of names and spend the entire day using my iPhone (more on this life-changing device later) to google physicians and then get directions. And then realize the address I’d found was wrong, and re-googling…let’s just say my iPhone did a LOT of work today!
Also making today interesting was the fact that Avery progressed from miserable to meltdown status…fortunately she has an excellent (and very patient) caregiver…as the morning progressed! To her credit, I think it had something to do with a combination of teething, a new environment, and being completely starving…my bad on that. By the way, I think breastfeeding is about over…I said I would do it for as long as it was working…I think that it is no longer working. More on that later. So anyways, she eventually (easy for me to say…I wasn’t there!) settled. But it certainly wasn’t an ideal first day for anyone involved!
So even with some mild craziness and some lousy rain, I got my 11 calls in (quota is 9ish), made dinner, made 2 weeks worth of baby food for Avery (it is my way of not feeling guilty for hopping off the breastfeeding train), and had loads of quality family time.
And that brings me to my original purpose for this post: this cute video! I feel like I say this every day but Avery is simply blossoming. Her little personality comes out more every day! And the verdict…she is hilarious! She had Brian and I laughing sooo hard tonight. She is pretty sturdy when sitting up now, and we were playing with her and somehow singing some random old song from the 90s (horribly off key, sorry) and she started doing this funny little boogie. [I have a short video of this, but when I uploaded it to youtube it is so dark you can't even see what's going on. And vimeo hates me. So maybe I'll get that video up later.]
As if we hadn’t had enough fun, then it was bathtime…something that she has recently discovered can include fun. She is getting better at splashing, and tonight we threw a rubber duckie into the mix and it was like love at first sight (and love at first bite…poor duckie, he didn’t stand a chance)!
Good for Avery, sitting up. Will tries but he’s so chubby he pretty much leans like the Tower of Pisa until he topples over.
I miss my little sunshine!
Heather – that is too funny. We have to get them together!
Grammy – She misses you too! She told me!
She is too cute. Love the video. She is doing great sitting up!…although I didn’t have to tell you that did I?! And the rubber ducky…something about those things that the little ones seem to love. All our kids always went right for the beak.
William and I just watched the video together. He was laughing and pointing (don’t worry, not out of meanness) I think he wants to see Avery again…its been too long!
If she gets any cuter I don’t know what I’ll do! Since she’s sitting up now you may want to try one of those little tub rings – you can put a towel in the bottom of the tub to keep her little slick hiney from sliding around but that way she’ll be directly in the water and she’ll realize she can splash bigtime!!! So watch out!!