Mommy’s Day Off
I can’t believe how big Codey seems to be getting all of a sudden! I swear he does something new every other day. He’s been rolling 
over tummy to back for a few weeks and seems to be close to rolling over from his back to his tummy, but hasn’t quite got all the way over. And he laughed for the first time last week! He absolutely loves baths and has discovered the fun he can have splashing and kicking in the water (I swear he loves it even more when Mommy gets soaking wet!) and he just let out a little laugh/gurgle, but it was distinctly different from the gurgles and coos he’s been making lately - definitely more of a laugh.
Kevin and I had a bit of a rough weekend, though. I had a date with my girlfriends for a much-needed brunch and afternoon of shopping and had planned to leave Codey with Kevin so I could have a few hours to myself. I had told Kevin of my plans ages ago, but of course, he claims I never mentioned it. Ha! The end result being he had also made plans with his buddies (needless to say, baby-less). We started arguing, both of us contending that we deserved the day "off" more than the other. Kevin kept insisting that I could more easily take Codey with me since we were just going to be sitting around talking and eating anyway. But ultimately he couldn’t argue with the fact that I’d carried, given birth to, and had his attached to my boobs for the last four and a half months, so I won my day to "sit around and gossip." Yay! It was great fun to be out and about for a few hours and catch up with the girls, but then I did start to miss my beautiful little baby and was really glad when I finally headed home. It’s amazing how odd I now feel when he’s not with me; he’s become such an integral part of me. I think it was really good for Kevin to be home alone with Codey for the day - after all, it doesn’t happen all that often and he’s rarely had to take care of him all on his own. I’m usually there to whisk him away from him if he gets hungry or if he’s fussy and he can’t calm him down after a bit. He’s never really alone with him when he has to figure out what’s wrong all by himself and can’t ask someone else or hand him off. I swear, sometimes I think he believes that I was born with this innate sense of how to calm a crying baby, when in fact it’s an ongoing learning process and I had to (still have to) struggle through many a day alone with him when I couldn’t figure out how to stop her crying and was at my wit’s end. 
Do you ladies get a "day off" every once in a while? Does your partner take care of the baby to give you time to do whatever you want?
