Routine, routine, routine!

Being a working Mom is hard REALLY HARD.  Basically, you wake up in the morning and hit the ground running.  Now, I'm lucky because I have a husband that is so wonderful and so incredibly helpful.  I don't know what I would do without him, especially because I'm still breastfeeding and the pump eats up so much of my time.  The easiest thing for us to do is to come up with a routine, which we have done.  The first month of being back at work was not easy.  It's hard to go back to work not only because you're leaving your baby but also because time management is just hard.  Luckily we seem to have it all figured out.  But it wasn't easy.  There are people that seem to have it all together and they are able to do a thousand things while having a child.  I've had to accept that I'm just not that person.  I get done what's important and by the end of the day I'm exhausted.  But you know what?  I'm proud of what I get accomplished in a day.  If I can go to bed at night knowing that on that day I was the best Mom, wife, and teacher that I could be then that's enough for me.

I have a new nemisis.  Actually, maybe Cooper has a new nemisis.  Rice cereal.  The kid despises it.  And it's not one of those take the food, spit it out because I don't know how to eat with a spoon types of things.  It's all out hatred for the stuff.  The kid cannot stand it.  Here is Exhibit A:

To me he seems totally ready for solid food because while Mom and I were eating fettucini alfredo the other night he was longing for it.  He couldn't take his eyes off of it.  It consumed him.  Obviously we're just going to have to try something else.  I wanted to try to hold off until 6 months to go with veggies, but it might not be an option anymore.  Updates to come!  And hopefully no more pictures like the one above.  I don't like my boy being unhappy about anything, and especially not food!