Ian is 7 days old today and I have to say that Jesse and I are starting to adapt. It was a little rough our first night home with Ian, but we’re starting to get the hang of it. We’re still exhausted, but it’s not affecting our patience as much as it did 4 days ago. For the past couple of days, I’ve actually had a couple of hours to myself each morning. Ian has been sleeping pretty late in the day (regardless of how he is fed at night) and Jesse has been taking advantage of that by sleeping in with him. While I’m still exhausted (especially at 3am), I’m still getting up pretty early. I’ve been going to bed about the same time as Ian. If we get him down around 8pm, I’m usually in bed by 9pm. Jesse has been staying up later, but he gets wired at night and by the time he is ready to come to bed, Ian is up and reading for another feeding. So it all works out in the end. Something tells me that Jesse will be soon changing that habit though. He goes back to work tomorrow and that means he’ll be getting up even earlier than I have been.
I do have some good news though. I’m losing weight. I know that I’m suppose to be losing weight, I just lost about 8lbs within 6 hours a week ago; but I’m talking about more than that. I weighed in about 217ish when we found out we were pregnant in July of 2006. I weighed myself this morning and I’m bouncing between 210 and 215! I know that doesn’t seem like a lot to most people, but that means I’ve already lost all of my pregnancy weight and I still have the tummy to get rid of. Plus, since I’m nursing Ian, I’ll be losing weight with that as well. Jesse is getting excited. 
I’m hoping to get below 200 by the time my weight loss slows down. If I can do that, then I may have a shot at losing the 50lbs I wanted to lose before getting pregnant. My end goal is to get back around 160, which is where I was when I first met Jesse. Keep your fingers crossed.
Like I said earlier, Jesse goes back to work tomorrow, but I won’t be alone for long. My mother is coming up tomorrow and staying through Wednesday to help me out. She’s going to make dinner and clean my apartment and help me catch up with laundry. I’m so excited. I had planned on cleaning the apartment last Monday, but with Ian’s arrival, my plans were changed. Needless to say that when I came home on Wednesday, my apartment was not as clean as I would have liked it. Of course, I can’t say it was trashed either. My sister and her boyfriend, along with my father, did some minor cleaning for me while I was in the hospital. So while it wasn’t bad, it still wasn’t my cleaning. Thankfully, there won’t be too much laundry that needs to be caught up on. I was actually doing laundry when my water broke and the only load I didn’t get done was the whites; which I did yesterday since Jesse was going to need them.
Dad is coming up on Wednesday/Thursday to help out as well. I think I’m going to be putting him to work rearranging the living room. Jesse and I are going to rearrange the bedroom today to make room for a chair. That and the fact that we’ve added two large pieces of furniture lately, our room has gotten a little crowded. We just need to reformat the space.
Speaking of Jesse, it’s time to get him up. So I’ll leave now with a few new pictures of the men in my life.
