Welcome, 2014!

I know it'll be a great year. We started it off the right way, that's for sure! We were fortunate to be invited to Chau and Mike's wedding at The W Scottsdale, and even more fortunate to get a room there on points. But most fortunate of all was that Gavin's grandparents came in from Oregon to hang out with him while we were away. We had a rough couple of weeks in December with Dylan gone almost the whole time and me working extra. The night of the wedding I looked like hell run over and felt even worse. I've never known exhaustion like that. But somehow I made it to midnight and rang in the New Year with some of my closest friends and co-workers in style. (Full disclosure, I went up to the room and took a nap from 10:30 to 11:30.)

Somehow I have a trillion photos of Gavin, but only a couple of us from New Year's Eve. Laura took a bunch of photos, so I'm waiting to get my hands on those. But I'll produce evidence of our big night out at some point.

I know that all I've written about on this blog in the last four months is Gavin this and Gavin that. Obviously he is the center of my universe, and it really shouldn't be any other way. But I do miss my old self. I don't write on the blog nearly as much as before, I hardly ever prepare anything in the kitchen aside from the occasional bowl of cereal or heating something up from Trader Joe's. I haven't been on an airplane in almost seven months, and it's been almost that long since I've seen a movie in the theater. But I'm hoping to change that, even if just a little bit, in 2014. I fully expected life to be this way, but I'm feeling the itch to get out and be me again.

My first big win in getting control of my life happened just now. Gavin has a history of being a bit of a difficult baby, and it probably has more to do with me than him. I always had the worst time getting him to take a nap. However, at daycare, he takes two long naps every day and doesn't give Dawn much trouble at all. Well, just now, I put him in bed wide awake, no rocking, no nursing, no coaxing him in any way, and I listened to him babble for a bit, and now he is fast asleep. Until you have a child of your own you cannot know how victorious I feel right now. As a celebration, I am on the blog resolving to get my life back in control. The only trouble now is that after starting Gavin on food in the last couple weeks, he has yet to take a dump that stays confined to the diaper. Explode poo nation over here. It's really terrible. Too much information? Well this has been my life, and I'd appreciate any and all tips on the matter!