#two months old

[losingitinjersey]

Second to last day working from home so I decided to use my lunch hour to get outside and make the most of this lovely 65 degree breezy day.

Erp slept the entire time (and for at least an hour afterwards) but I sure loved it! Going to continue to try and find creative ways to get my walk on which is so very good for my soul.

[foofygoldfish]

today on petfinder, i found a dog named faith and a puppy named bliss

if only i could convince my mom to get them....

[spoiled-lemonade]

Baby Apple Juice photo dump

[aworldinpinkandwhite]

Our precious little girl is two months old! She’s so tiny and beautiful and she knows her daddy loves her so much. As for me, I’m so tired but so happy. She’s growing so fast.

[michivns]

My baby Clea 😻

[losingitinjersey]

First day working full-time back in the office (or until we're shut down to work remotely). Erp is at daycare and Kevin is still required to continue doing his rotations as part of his third year education.

My work is allowing anyone to work remotely if they don't feel comfortable coming into the office. Since Kevin's being exposed to more germs than I am I figure I'll work remotely if/when he's told to stop. Or, until I no longer feel calm about the situation. More than likely given how things are progressing, in a week or two my work will go fully remote.

Got out for a walk yesterday evening with my friendbor which was nice to be outside in the fresh air despite it being pretty cold outside. Love seeing the nature pics even though they're always the same - they give me peace nonetheless.

We gave erp a bath last night and the way I dried her hair gave her this fabulous style. Her daycare texted me this morning saying her son is calling her Elvis due to it :) Thank you, thank you very much.

[losingitinjersey]

Wednesday on the elevator up to the pediatrician office I heard fellow passengers talk of snow in the forecast. I immediately turned around and asked for more details. There hasn't been snow here in three years! When I moved from CA to VA I assumed we'd get a ton of snow every year because I was moving to the east coast and doesn't everyone on the east coast live in snow? Apparently not.

All day on Thursday I was on snow watch and around 4pm we got our first flurries and I was a flurry of excitement taking all the pictures and videos for my west coast family and friends. By 7pm the snow had stopped and all the "winter weather watch" alerts for 2-4" (that were going to shut down the region) had been reduced and my hopes for a snow day had diminished.

Even though I had to come into work today I am glad there's enough snow to make the world white but not enough to affect driving (although the roads were clear because everyone still stayed home apparently).

I'm happy to say erp handled her two month immunizations extremely well. While she screamed bloody murder and her face turned a new shade of red, she didn't have an averse reaction nor was she overly fussy. The nurse let me be right next to her during her injections and I could pick her up immediately afterwards. She said we could stay in the room as long as we needed to so we got some extra cuddles in and I fed her to help calm her down.

Yesterday was erp's two month birthday (which blows my mind) so I proceeded to take approximately 60 pictures to get one good one to document the day. Simply obsessed with those cheeks of hers.

My parents are coming tomorrow for a week and my mom hasn't seen erp since she was two weeks old. She sure looks like a different kid since she's filled out! So excited to see my mom see her granddaughter again and stoked to have my dad meet her for the first time. She is named after his mother after all ♥️.

Happy Friday!!!

[losingitinjersey]

Last official work from home day today! Although, with the state of the world perhaps I'll be able to get a few more remote work days than originally negotiated!

It's fascinating to me how much has changed in the last three days. When I left work on Wednesday everything was normal with a bit of heightened awareness and precaution.  By Thursday morning everything felt like it was different in my neck of the woods.  UVA announced it was moving to online only which caused an avalanche effect of everyone following suit.  Every email that came in was about an upcoming event being postponed, a notice from the governor declaring a state of emergency, or our state partner creating a mandatory work from home policy effective immediately and so on.  

My work has grounded all travel and all planned events in the next two weeks have been cancelled.  I keep waiting to get notified that we’re moving to working remotely but the way my boss is talking it doesn’t sound like that’s happening - but who knows!  Things keep changing every hour.  

For the time being, I’ve already had a luxurious start to the day.  I’ve been up since 4:30 a.m. since I went to bed at 8:30 p.m., then got up at 12:30 a.m. to pump and feed erp, then up again at 4:30 a.m. to rinse and repeat and decided to just stay up since I’ve been having trouble getting back to sleep lately.  I picked out an album, did my yoga (which I haven’t done in over a week), made myself french press coffee and breakfast and enjoying this rainy day at home.  

And hooray it’s Friday!  Looking forward to staying in this weekend spending time with Kevin and erp before the uncharted territory of next week begins.  

Stay safe out there, friends.