Instead

As Lawson approaches two months of age, (he was officially 8 weeks old yesterday...seriously?) he is getting a little more predictable as far as a schedule goes. I'm not trying to force any kind of schedule on him because I still have over a month and a half before I go back to work, but I've noticed that he is developing one of his own. And as sure as I type this, that schedule will go out the window and he will completely surprise me with a new one, but oh well.

He wakes up for the day around 9 a.m. (he goes to bed around 11:30 p.m., wakes up at 3:30 a.m. to eat and then goes back to sleep around 5:30 a.m.) and he usually takes a short nap in the late morning for about an hour and then a long three-hour nap in the afternoon with a few cat naps in the evening. Knowing this, I had big plans for myself during these nap times the past couple of days. I was going to pick up around the house, download some books to my Kindle, blog, continue catching up on The Young & the Restless on DVR (I'm still watching shows from the middle of October...and it's getting gooooood), do no less than four loads of laundry, take a couple of showers (not all at one time, silly), read, write thank you notes, etc.

Instead, I did none of those things. Well, I showered. Once.

Instead, while Lawson did take those predicted naps over the past couple of days, he did not sleep on his own. Instead, little man decided that he was going to go through a hungry period, which he does from time to time, and a clingy phase, which he has been known to do as well. So for the past 72 hours or so, I've spent all of my time nursing and holding my baby boy. He has not wanted to nap unless it has been on my chest (or Justin's for a couple of hours) and I was unable to accomplish anything on the list above that I felt would have been productive ways to spend my time. Instead, I mastered doing necessary tasks with one hand, like feeding Maggie, and I ate Cheerios for dinner since a bowl of cereal was the easiest thing to "cook" and eat with one hand.

I wasn't able to check anything off of my list, but I held and cuddled with my baby that is growing way, way too fast. And you know what? I wouldn't have had it any other way.