Dating before noon and Staying up all night

Yesterday we had our very first post baby date! We left the Princess with my parents for 2 hours and went to get breakfast and coffee at Roaster's. Then we were off to go play Lights off mini golf! We had a blast(and I won) playing together and just being able to have fun as a couple. It was really nice just to be able to be with Ben and not worry about changing a diaper or where the closest place that I could feed her is at. And it was really great to finally get to talk to each other. So our first date was definitely a success :) But that didn't stop me from worrying and missing my sweet princess the whole time we were gone. Even though I knew she was with people that we could trust and that she loves to spend time with, it was really hard. I'm glad we did it though. Ben is still a priority in my life and making sure that we have time to reconnect is really important to me. He is my rock and I don't know how I would get through the tough hour before bedtime or the mornings after a really rough night without him.

As for the Princess? She is almost 4 months old! In the next few weeks we will be starting her on solids and I am pretty excited about that because we will be makng our own. It should be an adventure. :) Right now she is working on lifting her head when she's on her tummy and she has really gotten good at it! She is grabbing things, she can reach the toys on her bouncer and play mat and she loves to hit them to make them move. She pulls on her bird on her play mat to make it sing. She is talking more than ever! She can 'say' Daddy,Hey,and Ellie. She makes a sound that I know means Mommy but thats as far as we are there. She loves to sing to herself and dances along to music. She gives hugs and kisses and she's working on rolling over..not quite there yet. She wants to stand up all the time so we hold her up and she thinks she's a big girl! And she has a little scoot thing going on. She wants to crawl but can't quite figure it out so she does her little scoot on her tummy. She is getting so big. Lately I feel so overwhelmed by everything she is learning and how fast she is growing. Every day she learns something new and sometimes I feel like I want to just stop time for a little while so that I can keep up :) She is so amazing to me,I just don't want to miss anything.

the much anticipated return to work

...was actually alot easier than I expected. I am incredibly fortunate to be working for a school and during the summer my boss doesn't mind me having Paisley with me. The first she asked was why she wasn't there! So I had Ben come up and they stayed with me. My mom was at a luncheon for a funeral when Ben was supposed to drop Paisley off on his way to work so I just kept her all day. So nice! So our new schedule is that they come to work with me from 11-2:30 and then Ben takes her to my mom on his way to work and I pick her up at 4. I am loving it so far. But all good things come to an end,and my end is the end of June. The program I work for has a 4 year cycle and after working there for 4 years..it's over. So i have the option of starting at a new school in August or finding a new job. I really wanted to just get a newspaper route so that I could offset the costs of a daycare/babysitter and basically be a SAHM while still making some money. But Ben isn't really a fan of the idea. So my mom told me about a job opportunity at the school we currently work at, I would work full time as an assistant. I would get off of work right as Ben would be going in. Paisley would never have a babysitter but I would be away from her for 7-8 hours a day. It would be alot more money though and medical insurance so it's definitely not an opportunity that I can easily pass up since we're looking to buy a house soon. Right now I'm not sure how I feel about it but I'm going to apply and leave the rest to God. We'll just have to see what happens.