Back to Work

Dear Penny,
It's mommy. My maternity leave is over and I'm back to work during the week days. While I'm there I miss you terribly. When I was pregnant, you came to work with me every day and I don't think I really appreciated the fact that I got to spend all my time with you. I LOVED maternity leave. I had so much fun watching you grow and learn and hope that you had fun with me. You started off as a tiny little peanut and now you're one busy growing girlfriend. In your first few weeks, we spent most of our days and nights learning about one another. You were learning how to tell us what you needed and daddy and I were learning how to calm you and give you what you needed. At six weeks, you really started to smile and that made me so happy! At nine weeks you started 'talking' and you're so expressive these days. You're starting to move and you're getting so strong! You'll be rolling and sitting before we know it. I love that when I come home from work you can smile and tell me about your day. I love that you recognize me now (and the Pooh Bear on your curtain in your bedroom). I love that we have our whole lives to learn more about each other. Most of all, I just love being your mom. I hope that one day I'll get to stay home with you on weekdays so that we can grow and learn together. I'll have you know I'm really good at playing Barbies. But, until then, I'm so very thankful that daddy, grandma, nanna, poppa and those crazy aunties of yours will be there to grow and learn with you until the end of the summer. We are so very lucky to have family like them! I love you baby girl :) Mommy