I thought I’d use this week’s post to tell you what a “day in your life” looks like these days. I chose a weekend day since that’s when we get to spend the most time together.
4:45 a.m.-7:00 a.m. – Yes, these ungodly hours do exist on a weekend day. Despite our pleas to get you to sleep in, your wake up time remains sporadic. Just when you think mommy and daddy are getting a bit too comfortable in our new roles of sleeping through the night, you like to change things up a bit and vary your wake up time. For some reason you think it’s cool to get more sleep on weekdays when mommy has to wake you up and then on weekends you want to maximize our time together and wake up before the rooster. And, yes, your daddy did take you outside at 6:00 on Saturday morning to show you that the sun wasn’t even up yet. Judging by your wake-up time on Sunday morning, I don’t think you got the message.
5 minutes after wake-up a.m. – First bottle of the day.
Post-bottle until 8:00 a.m. – Play time! Play these days involves sitting up and playing with as many toys as you possibly can at one time. And the more noise those toys can make, the better.
As you sit on your blanket and play, if there are any toys out of you reach you stretch and reach to get them or roll to get them.
Which means sometimes we find you like this:
Or like this:
8:00 a.m. – Oatmeal time. Oatmeal became the replacement for rice cereal when you decided to go on the rice cereal strike. Apparently it tastes much better to you.
8:30 a.m.-9:00 a.m. – While most people may just be waking up on their weekend day off, this is your time to lay down for a nap. If you woke up extra early, you get a bottle before naptime, which tends to make you very drowsy. But if it’s not bottle time yet, you always fight sleep at first. And your first line of defense is to be as vocal as you can. Because apparently if you’re talking, you know you’re not sleeping. So you coo and jabber and fuss and sigh and do just about anything you can to make noise. But eventually your heavy eyes give in and we put you in your crib when you’re just about asleep.
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Wake up time! You often wake up refreshed and ready to go for the day. If you didn’t have a bottle before sleep, now’s the time.
11:00 a.m. – Time for more play. This time it’s time to play in the jumperoo, which you love. You spend time hopping up and down while grinning ear to ear.
Noon – Lunch time. Lunch these days consists of either a fruit or a vegetable. This weekend you tried mango for the first time and loved it. (Notice a trend here?)
1:00 p.m. – Time for nap number two. See notes above for nap number one.
2:00-3:00 p.m. – Wake up time! We normally find you cooing away in your crib after your naps, telling us you’re ready for us to come and play. We love the smiles you reward us with when we come into your room.
3:00 p.m. – Bottle time and then more play time. This time we go outside to get outdoor time in. This may include a walk to the neighborhood park to swing, a run in the jogging stroller or playing outside on a blanket. After outside time is done, we read, watch a Baby Einstein if mommy and daddy are trying to get something accomplished, or spend more time sitting up and playing. (By the way, I’m starting to think you may never crawl because you hate laying down and playing now. Laying down is sooo for littler babies and you’re a big baby now. Plus, by laying down you may miss out on seeing the action that’s going on around you. So instead you want to sit up and play all of the time.)
5:30 p.m. – Time to start thinking about a bath if it’s bath night. Again, you love, love, love your baths.
6:00 p.m. – Dinner! Dinner is another bowl of oatmeal and then a fruit or a veggie, the opposite of what you had for lunch.
6:30 p.m. -7:00 p.m. – Time for the bedtime routine. Bedtime routine includes playing classical lullabies, reading a story if you’re not too tired, putting you in your sleep sack, giving you a bottle, and prayers. I love rocking you before bedtime because you’re often truly tired and so you’re still. All throughout the day you’re too alert to be still, but in those special 10 minutes before bed I get to hold you and cuddle with you. I repeatedly try to freeze these still frames in my mind because you’re growing up more and more each day.
Love,
Mommy
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