Ok… I’m still working through a backlog of pictures to post!
Life has been busy lately. I am staffed on a project again for work, and my mom has returned to Texas. So it’s just Sean and me and the baby! Aka, we’re a normal family with working parents. 
I’m staffed right now at Chevron in San Ramon – on the same project I was at for 2 years before I had Gavin. They’re being very flexible with my schedule, which is great! I have to go there one day a week, and the other 4 days I work from home. It makes for one very, very long day, but it seems like a fair exchange to me. As much as possible, anyway. The project is only scheduled to go through December, so we’ll see what happens after that.
Now that I am on a project and my mom is gone, we’ve started Gavin in day care. This is his second week, and he’s doing great. It was really sad for me to drop him off last week (and it still is), but what can you do. On the first day I cried and he didn’t! The teachers say that he is great and such an easy baby. Sean or I have gone every day at lunch to hang out with him for awhile. I miss him sooo much when he’s not with me, but a little part of me is glad for a bit of time to focus on something non-baby related.
Anyway, the days pass so quickly now! I’ll just post some pictures.
Gavin in the large size Swaddle Me (it has velcro tabs to easily wrap the baby up). He outgrew this one and we had to order another of a different brand (size: “megababy”) online because Gavin still startled too easily to sleep unswaddled:
My standard “prop the baby on the couch” pictures
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My mom surrounded Gavin with pillows to try and prop him in a sitting position:
Gavin actually deliberately reaches for toys and grabs them now!
We bought a bumbo chair for Gavin. They’re super popular little chairs that help babies learn to sit up. Unfortunately, Gavin is very large and it’s hard to squish his thighs into the leg openings (and honestly, he doesn’t always enjoy it…), so I’m not sure we’ll get much use out of this. It’s cute though
Awwww, he is such a cute baby!! We loved the SwaddleMe blankets and I’ve also heard good thing about the Halo Sleepsack-swaddle combo (forget what it’s called exactly). Glad your work situation is working out for you and that you found a good daycare… sorry it is hard.
Comment by corriespondent — November 12, 2009 @ 5:40 am
I’m so glad you’re enjoying work and that Gavin is doing well in daycare.
Comment by Aunt Jenn — November 15, 2009 @ 7:12 pm