A day in the life...

For awhile, I've thought about doing a play-by-play recap of one of our days. It's really long, so if you don't care what I do all day, every day, skip this one :)

June 3, 2012

6:00 am Lily woke up. I changed her, fed her and layed her back down and she fell back asleep. By then it was about 6:45, so I got up and got ready for the day so I could have a little time to myself before the craziness of the day ensues!

I made coffee, picked up around the kitchen, and read until about 7:15, when Mark got up. Wade had already been up for a few minutes, but when he heard Mark, he was officially awake. He's really good at hanging out in his room (if he's awake, which he's usually not) until his bunny clock wakes up at 7:30, but I told him today he could get up a little early since we hardly have any time alone together. (If I haven't mentioned this clock before, it is the greatest invention ever- http://www.kid-sleep.com/enfant/wake-up/indicateur/does-your-child-wake-early.html ). Mark left to do some work at Deb's house (a friend of the family) and I got Wade settled to watch a few episodes of Jake and the Neverland Pirates with a blueberry muffin breakfast picnic on the living room floor. While he was watching TV I got dressed, folded laundry, emptied the dishwaser, bribed him to finish his muffin, updated my blog and ate breakfast. When his cartoons were over, I got him dressed and ready and we read a few books. The same 2 Mercer Mayer books, over and over and over...  But they were good for talking about letters and opposites and counting. Plus I like the Little Critter books :) Then I let out the dogs, dumped some compost and got the diaper bag packed.

9:15 I had to wake up Lily :/ to get ready for my chiropractor appointment. Fed her, changed her, got her dressed and we headed out to see Dr. Vaughn. Wade was good at the chiropractor and earned a sucker (sugar free and organic, no less!), and Lily was awake in her carseat and perfectly content the entire time. Success :)

Good morning!

Playing while I get Sister ready to go

Around 10:20 we headed to the McDonald's playscape and enjoyed a smoothie. Their new pomagrante/blueberry is actually really good, the only one I like there. Wade played and Lily woke up, so I changed and fed her. He played until around 11:45 when we had to go back to Dr. Vaughn's office to pick up Wade's Buzz and Woody toys that he left there :/ It was so nice of them to actually call me and let me know before we had a complete meltdown when we couldn't find them at home!

Catching a quick nap while Brother plays

Trying to convice his new friend to play on the playscape with him

It was about 12:00 when we got home and I quick threw in a load of diapers while Wade took a pretend nap in our room (his idea, and what a wonderful one!) and Lily was awake and perfectly happy in her carseat for the moment. I then moved her to the living room floor for tummy time (which she loves) while I made lunch for Wade. Mark got home and we all sat down to eat lunch together. Except Wade, who ate one bite of everything (this is our rule and he did it on his own today, with no coercing) and announced he was done.

When you take a nap,

you have to become the daddy by wearing these glasses.

So happy on my belly!

Wade helped Mark do some work on the vent in our room while I fed Lily. She fell asleep around 1:15 and I layed her down for her long afternoon nap, while Mark started a Superwhy cartoon for Wade. I love this show! It's on PBS and is all about letters, reading and spelling. I find him around the house singing his ABC's and having little adventures with letters like they do on the show :)

Mark did some work in the garage and I did a quick sweep of the living room floor while Wade watched his TV show and finished his lunch (we let him eat the rest of his meals if he gets hungry, instead of a snack), then I read him a story and put him to bed for his "nap." Usually he doesn't sleep, but miracle of miracles, today he did! Yes, he still sleeps on the floor, but we don't have the baby gate up anymore. It was suddenly "broken" one day and daddy needed to fix it. Wade hasn't asked about it in about a month (crossing my fingers).

 Sleeping, yay!

 I had just gotten him settled and started to make notes about today (so I wouldn't forget by the time I typed this!) when Lily woke up. Usually she'll sleep for a few hours, so I was really surprised that she had already woken up after only about an hour... She was wet and hungry (surprise, surprise) so I changed and fed her. Then she pooped, and decided that made her hungry. So I changed her and fed her again. She was fussy by now, so I tried to rock her, which she wanted nothing to do with, so I ended up putting her in her bouncer where she instantly fell asleep. I made the mistake of moving her from the bouncer to her cradle, hoping that she'd sleep longer... After about 10 minutes she woke up again, but I was able to get her to go back to sleep :) Ahhh, silence.

Asleep, for the moment...

I woke Wade up at 4, seeing as how he won't sleep at night if he naps any later. He watched another Superwhy cartoon while he had his snack, and then seeing as how Lily was still sleeping and I was feeling motivated, I loaded him into the stroller and we walked to the park while Mark made dinner. We played for about 45 minutes, then headed back and ate some yummy crab bisque. At least Mark & I did. Wade hates all seafood, so he had hotdogs and broccoli. 

Lily let us eat all of our dinner, before she woke up around 6:30 hungry and wet, so I changed and fed her. While Wade had a little ice cream for dessert (since he ate all of his dinner :) ), I took a quick shower. Then he played a bit before we gave both kids baths at 7:30. Wade watched a few episodes of Jake and went to bed around 8:30. But... there was an ant near his room, he missed daddy (who went to borrow Uncle Greg's truck for some work he needed it for tomorrow), and he heard the neighbors lighting off fireworks until after 10:00, so that kept him up... Lily finally crashed out around 10:30 after a little bout of me nursing her, pacing around with her on my shoulder, and rocking her. I was up for about 10 minutes after she went to sleep before I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer and went to bed too.

So that's it. We usually try to do one active/outside activity to burn some energy (McDonalds playscape, sprinkler park, bounce house, riding bikes, park, pool, playdate etc.) and one quiet, learning activity (reading, computer time, playdough, painting/art, library, puzzles, board games, etc.) per day. This was a pretty typical day except for the fact that there were no episodes of sending Wade to his room, fighting over meals or negotiating nap time. So I guess that makes it especially atypical :)