1. Poop
I bet nobody saw that one coming as number one (maybe I should have made it "Number 2" lol)!! But seriously, it starts when you are pregnant and you can't poop. Then when the baby starts having poop explosions. Then when you get so excited for her to poop on the potty... or so mad when she poops in her underwear! You don't ever get to poop alone anymore. Poop and how much I talk about it in every day conversation changed A LOT when I became a mom!
2. Sleep
I used to believe I could only function on 8 hours of sleep... no less. I used to always go to bed and not wake up until the alarm went off. Those nights are so long gone. When I was pregnant and I had to start getting up to pee in the middle of the night, I think that's the last time I slept a straight night, all the way through! Lyla hasn't ever been a really good sleeper. Our routine now consists of putting her to bed in her toddler bed and sometime during the night she comes in our room and gets in our bed. I just let it go. At least I don't have to feed her and its fun to cuddle! Some day she won't want to sleep with us anymore and I think that will be a sad day, so I'm just enjoying it now! And those 8 hours I used to get... well I found out, I don't really need all 8 of them. Some nights I get it, but not every night. And I seem to be surviving!
3. Pictures
Facebook is a funny reminder of this! Especially if you flip through my Profile Pictures folder. I used to take lots of pictures, trying to get the perfect angle of me and my adult beverage. They looked something like this:
Then you get pregnant and you want the perfect angle of the "bump". Which really, its so funny when you call it a bump... because looking back, it looks a lot bigger than a bump to me! Bump just makes the pregnant girls feel less huge I think!
Then you need the perfect picture of the BABY! You aren't even in the pictures anymore!
And the older they get the more fun it is!
And sometimes they let you get in the pictures too... sometimes.
4. Showers
I shower at night now. Its just so weird to me. But here is the deal, most of the time if I don't shower when Lyla is asleep then she insists that she is going to shower with me. Do you know how hard it is to shave your legs while sharing the shower with a toddler? Try it some time! And I hate drying my hair. It goes back to the whole sleep thing too, if I shower at night, I can pretend to sleep in a couple extra minutes in the morning without panicking as much as I would if I still needed to get a shower before work. Whatever, judge all you want, night showering is where its at these days!
5. Mom Jeans
Now the clothes and shoes I pick and my general appearance since having Lyla is something I think about more now than I ever did before. I don't EVER want to come across as the frumpy mom wearing the "mom jeans". I put a lot of effort now in to trying to still look good or at least presentable. I think I just don't want to fall in to the stereotype of "I'm a mom now so I don't have to care what I look like anymore". So the result of that is that I care even more now instead of not caring at all! Now I still wear my hoodies and my tenners, but not every day. And I try to do my hair and some kind of make up before I leave my house to go somewhere (even Walmart on a Sunday morning at 7:00).
Happy Friday Everyone! AKA PJ Party at Daycare Day! They put a smile on my face!
