Coll Writes

Wow. I can’t believe that 12 weeks have gone by. The best 12 weeks of my life are coming to an end and a new chapter is beginning.

Before Mommy’s First Day Back.

I go back to work today, September 8. I cannot believe that it’s already time to say goodbye to spending my days with my Zachary Louis. I should have written down more about the past three months, but I didn’t. I kept thinking, “Oh, I’ll do an update next week…okay, next week…next week…” and it just never happened. Now, I don’t even remember the last three months at all. Just yesterday, we were cuddling on the couch while watching soccer with months to go together and now, it’s all ending. I really wish that I had written more things down.

I had so much that I wanted to do over the past 12 weeks. I wanted to blog more, read more books, read more magazines, work on my own book, cook and bake some of the many recipes I found on Pinterest and cut from magazines, and get more work done around the house.  Instead, I spent a lot of time sitting around, breastfeeding, going for walks, and going to Target to spend way too much money, haha. But, it was perfect because each day, I watched my son grow a little bit more, play a little bit more, and reach milestones.

This week, Zachary will get the “Daddy Daycare” treatment since Jay will be staying home with him to help make the transition a little bit easier. Next Monday, he will start daycare on a Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule at a Primrose School that’s a mile from where I work. Even though I am sad to leave him, I’m comforted knowing he will be so close to me and that I can always pop in to see him at lunch or during the day. I will have to make a blog post about the series of events that brought us to make a (very, very) last minute switch to Primrose that makes me think the Universe is still looking out for us.

So, before I wrap this up and go start the newest chapter of motherhood, I’ll share my favorite part of my day with my Zachary, the part that I will miss the most, as well as my favorite memory to date. As much as I love cuddling with Zach each day, I really love when we have our “chats.” He has been making noises since he was born, but when he was around six weeks, he really started interacting with us and “talking” back when we talked to him. I love smiling at him and having him burst into a smile back and start talking to me. Each day, it’s more frequent and happens for a longer period of time and I just could converse with him for hours. I hope he still talks to me, even when he’s a teenager, lol. My favorite Zach memory happened when he was six weeks old. Jay was at San Diego Comic-Con and my parents came to stay with us. I had just finished changing his diaper and was getting ready to put him to bed. Zach used to scream bloody murder almost every time you changed his diaper, so it could sometimes be a process to change him. I had just gone to battle and won and snapped close the last button on his onesie when I heard that unmistakable sound of a fresh poop. My dad was in the room with me. Zach looked up as soon as he went and let out this big old knowing smile with a little giggle noise, as if to say, “You thought you were home free for the night, but nope!” My dad and I burst out laughing because of the timing and his reaction. This video was taken right after, so you can see the good mood he was in. It was just so funny and endearing.

Zach has done so many cute things and there are so many stories just like that. I really wish I had been blogging about him each week so I could go back and be reminded of it. Maybe I will start to do that from here on out. I just wish I had written down more. Oh well. Time to start the new adventure…