Time flies when you don't sleep

Wow, Emma is almost 2 weeks old, and I still feel like it's early April. Somewhere I lost 2 weeks in there... Perhaps it has something to do with having a baby? Or now having 2 kids? It must be something like that.

Anyways, Derek went back to work today. It's been amazing having him home. It certainly is a big adjustment. When Addison was born we were so caught up in becoming parents and adjusting to being responsible for a tiny fragile life that we thought it was such a huge amount of work. Boy were we wrong! Now it seems that Emma takes very little work and attention compared to Addison.

Addison has been bouncing off the walls and constantly screeching or singing or running and spinning. Thank goodness newborns can sleep through anything. It's mostly positive energy, but to a couple of exhausted parents, dealing with a 2yr old is quite taxing; she doesn't care how much sleep we get at night (she has figured out how to sleep through any midnight feedings and diaper changes), all she expects is that we are up and ready to play when she is.

So, having Derek around for a week helped ease the adjustment. I'm not entirely caught up on sleep yet (nor will I be for a few months yet), but at least I've started to adjust to getting my sleep in 1 - 2hr intervals. I even felt energized enough yesterday to spend some time outside planting flowers while Addison ran around the yard and Emma dozed in the shade. Let's hope I have as much energy now that Derek is off to work again. Of course, my mom is coming in a few days, and I'm counting on getting some naps in while she's here to run fence on Addison.