I'm an Awesome Mom

Just going on the record to say, I DID IT!

Tonight (well...last night, considering it's almost 1am...note to self: go to bed!) was our first night without Daddy for a few days. He's travelling for business to Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver (hi family!!) between Sunday and Thursday, so the bath/bottle/story/bed routine has been left in my shaky hands.

I say shaky because I was really nervous for tonight. I spent the day at Life with Baby (more on there later!) and the evening with the Monster. We played toys...he had a nap...played in his jumperoo...showed me how capable he is at taking his diaper off when playing naked-baby in front of the TV.

Then came bedtime.

8:30pm

Eek! I rushed to fill the tub while putting his humidifier on, laying out his pj's, making his bottle, setting up his Tylenol (he's teething very badly these days and is still sick, so it's the only relief that he really gets), choosing his story and grabbing his duckie-towel.

He was splish splashing away, having a great time. We played peek-a-boo, I snuck up on him over the side of the tub a few times (he LOVES it!) and then he was dried off.

Then the real panic set in. We have sort of a crazy routine with dimming the lights at certain intervals and whatnot...and for the next few days he's just going to have to adjust (and really...maybe this will turn out to be good and shorten bedtime a whole bunch come the weekend!)

I kid you not, maybe 6 pages into his story The Nativity (from Grammy Dale) and the Monster was asleep. I finished the whole story and he was out like a light. Dim the lights to the point where I could barely see...plunk him down, cover him up and turn on his Rock-a-bye Baby Beatles cd and off I went!

He's been asleep since about 8:45...it's 12:45 now.

I'm awesome.

I promptly rewarded myself with q few minutes of peace and quiet, followed by Sex and the City 2.

Again, I'm awesome.