It was great having Jay’s mom here with us again. She was passing through town in between two big knitting shows in CT and MA. They took Theo into the city for a big day of shopping the day that I went back to work. Apparently he did an amazing job! Jay even got to change his diaper on a park bench in Tompkins Square Park. Don’t worry… he didn’t put him directly on the park bench 😉 Anyhow, I got to shop around with them the next day in Brooklyn. Theo is quite the trooper. He came with us for a ladies lunch out and this time I changed him in a restaurant booth. I’m getting better at this parenting thing.
Liz also got to watch Theo on my second day back at work. We had to do some creative baby swapping that day. Jay had a two-day job and I had to work so we were faced (already!) with our first child care challenge since I just started back to work part-time. Jay doesn’t have a set schedule so we are trying to figure out our options for flexible child care. Luckily, Yia Yia was here and she watched Theo in the morning, then brought him into the city to Jay’s work, and then Jay brought him to where I was and we swapped him out on the corner of 34th and 7th. Crazy times! Then Jay had him all day on Friday.
I’m back to work 3 days/week for the month of November. I miss him. We are meeting somebody on Sunday interested in watching him when we need help. And we have another person who is interested, as well. Hopefully, we can either line up a day or two or just have a few names of people we can call on short notice since our schedules are not set right now.
A few pictures with Yia Yia… (she bought him that adorable newsboy hat below!)
