Showing posts with label a day in the life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label a day in the life. Show all posts

Monday, April 20, 2015

The boys' daily routine

I left these instructions of our typical routine for Granny, Granddaddy, Grampa and Granna while Jason and I were gone to Hawaii.

Luke:
  • 0730: Up but plays happily in crib
  • Breakfast:  Whole milk, warm up milk for 30 seconds and banana for breakfast, he will gladly eat whatever you make for yourself.
  • Morning play time, run errands, or go off.
  • 0930 to 1000ish start of morning nap: lately he has not been taking a morning nap. If he is up real early or awake in the night he may need one. If you keep him busy and have snacks he can make it until his afternoon nap! If it’s after 10, I would just keep him up and put him down close to 1200.
    • If he does take a morning nap. don’t let him sleep longer than 1 ½ hours.If he takes a long morning nap, the afternoon nap is messed up and he will be ready for bed too early!
  • 1100-1130: Lunch with whole milk
    • Half a sandwich (peanut butter and jelly or ham/mustard), fruit (grapes need to be cut up) and cheese. He will eat anything though
  • Play time
  • 1200-1230: Start of nap routine. clean diaper, sleep sack, bedtime songs, crib with pillow pet, taggie blanket, yellow blanket and giraffe.
    • Most of the time I do this together with Davis. Read in Davis’ room and then start Luke’s bedtime routine while Davis gathers whatever he wants for bed.
    • Bedtime songs: Jesus Loves Me, The B-I-B-L-E, Jesus Loves The Little Children, I Love You Lord.
    • Sometimes Luke will run to his room, grab his taggie blanket and bring it to you with his thumb in his mouth. That is another sign that he is ready for bed!
    • If he does take a morning nap, afternoon nap should be between 1330-1400 or 2-3 hours after waking up.
  • 1430-1500: Up from nap.
  • Snack and milk or water when he wakes up
  • Afternoon play time
  • 1700-1730: Dinner
  • Playtime, walk to mailbox
  • Our mailbox is the group next to the package bins, #12. Keys are in 4Runner and stroller.
  • 1830-1845: Bathtime, jammies, bottle (usually just a sip), brush teeth (sing God Is So Good while brushing teeth), and read book/songs then bed.
    • Sometimes he acts wired during songs but still put him to bed.
       


No more than 2 full bottles a day, may have water in between



Davis
  • 0630-0700: he’ll come find you
    • Send him potty
    • Can watch a show or movie while you get breakfast ready!
  • Breakfast: Milk (1%) Granola bar and eggs. He sometimes will eat what you make for yourself
  • Morning play time, run errands, or go off.
  • If you go off, pack a snack and water
  • Snack at 1000, he'll ask for it! Yogurt, applesauce or fruit if he didn't eat a good breakfast. Goldfish or whatever he requests if he did eat a good breakfast.
  • 1100-1130: Lunch is usually close to 11.
    • Pbj or ham/mustard, fruit, pickle, chips after eats most of the sandwich
  • Play time
  • 1230: Start of nap routines
    • Start nap routine with both boys in Davis’ room for story time.
    • Will put Luke down while Davis goes potty, gathers a few cars or trains for bed
    • He may play quietly in his room for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. He needs to stay in his room alone for this quiet time. He may have water in his sippy cup.
    • Bedtime songs: Jesus Loves Me, The B-I-B-L-E, Jesus Loves The Little Children, I Love You Lord.
  • Snack time when he wakes up or Luke gets up
  • Afternoon play time
  • 1700-1730: Dinner
  • Playtime, rides bike to mailbox
  • 1900: Bath when Luke is going to bed
    • Doesn't have to have one every night unless he is real dirty
    • Usually will ask for a snack, leave dinner plate out if he hardly ate, if he did eat good, may have yogurt, applesauce, or mandarin oranges.
  • 1930: Bedtime if he didn’t nap
  • 2000: Bedtime if he did nap
    • If he naps make a big deal about how he gets to stay up late because he had a good nap
  • At 1930 or 2000, brush teeth, read/songs/pray. He may have water in his sippy cup.
Potty
  • Send him potty when he wakes up or wakes you up.
  • Before or after breakfast
  • Then usually about every hour or so when we are changing what we are doing (going downstairs, outside, leaving to run errands, before snack time, etc)
  • Pullups for naps, bedtime and when we go off.
  • Remind him to go poop in the potty. Usually first thing in the morning or after lunch.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

A day in the life of a seven month old

I like to write down "A Day in the Life of..." every once in awhile. It is so fun to look back now on what I thought then was a busy day! I first did a typical day on our 2nd anniversary. when Davis was 7 months old and 16 months old.




0205: Wakes up for a middle of night feed, back asleep within 30 minutes

0700: Stirring in his crib

0735:

Another feeding and then play time in the living room while I cook breakfast and unload dishwasher.

0840: Breakfast

Playtime for a few minutes while the kitchen is cleaned up. Then it is time to unwind for morning nap around 0900.

0940:
Vacuum time!
1040: Up from morning nap




Another feeding, then playtime while I fix lunch. For lunch, he eats peas for the first time and carrots. After lunch he plays happily with Davis

1140:

More playtime on the floor and then it's time to get the boys ready for afternoon nap/

1240:

1340: Ah, both boys are napping!

1430: Getting up from afternoon nap




Another feeding and then it's playtime while I fold laundry and wait for Davis to wake up

1545



Daddy comes home and I get ready to leave to get my haircut. Luke goes back to bed for a short late afternoon nap. He gets a bottle since he didn't want to take a nap. He is napping when I get home and we fix dinner. 
1745:

Shortly after this he wakes up and we have dinner. He eats peas and carrots again. He stays with Daddy while I clean up the kitchen and every time I look into the living room he is just staring at me!

1845:
So happy that I am done in the kitchen!

He plays happily in the living room when we are on the floor with him. When he starts getting tired, it is time for bath, jammies, and story time. He gets one more feeding before bed.

1945:
Clean boys, a full belly, bedtime book and bedtime songs, he is ready for bed!

2000: Asleep

We usually start our bedtime routine by 1900 but he took a late afternoon nap so that through us off!



Monday, October 15, 2012

A typical day in the life of a 16 month old:

0730-0830: wakes up and plays in his crib before he wants to get out.

0900: breakfast.

Then have the morning to play around the house, take a walk to the park, or run errands.

1200: lunch and then I let him play until naptime

1230: nap, usually lasts 2-3 hours

1530: Snack and play time

1630: Daddy gets home so I work on supper

1730: dinner

Play time with Daddy

1830: Time to go D (downstairs)

1900: Bath

1930: asleep

Thursday, January 19, 2012

A day in the life of a seven month old

0700: Davis wakes up a little before 0700 and plays happily in his crib.

 0800: Eating a banana for breakfast with Mommy

0900: Unwinding with a book before nap time. 


1000: Napping, I don't dare go in there to take a picture!


1100: Happy after eating





 1200: Push ups on the floor during playtime




 1300: Bouncing around in the Jumparoo


1400: Afternoon nap


 1500: Afternoon snuggles with Mommy after nap


 1600: If we have errands to run, we always do it after nap.





1700: Done with shopping




 1800: Entertaining himself while Mommy finishes eating (Daddy was traveling for work)


1900: Finally bedtime and no more pictures!