I figured doing this sort of a blog post might be a fun way to record exactly what it is that we do all day. It may not be super interesting, but it certainly doesn't involve surfing the internet, watching soaps and eating bon bons on the couch like some would think. :)
7:45 am - I'm still laying in bed, feeling incredibly warm and lazy... Jace is waking up in his crib. Over the monitor I can hear him whispering to himself peacefully, so I know he's not quite ready for the day yet either.
8:15 am - I realize I better quit being lazy and jump in the shower now or I won't get a chance later. Jace is fully awake in his crib and starting to talk louder which means he will want to get up soon. This is about an hour later than he usually gets up, so I'm thankful that I got some extra sleep.
8:30 am - My sister in law Dana (Micah's mom) calls on her way to drop Micah off to see if I want a Caribou coffee. Yes please!
8:40 am - Dana and Micah arrive as I'm getting dressed and getting Jace out of the crib.
8:45 am - We say bye to Dana and Micah starts crying.
8:50 am - Jace needs a diaper change, but Micah is hysterical and wants to be held. I improvise and change Jace's diaper on the floor, while holding Micah in my lap. Jace won't sit still for his diaper changes (ever!) so I have to distract him by singing and dangling toys over his face. It sort of works, so I move quickly.
8:55 am - Make Jace an 8 oz bottle. Micah is screaming and pulling on my pant legs for me to pick him up.
9:00 am - Micah is still crying so I pick him up, Jace finishes his bottle. Time for breakfast!
9:05 am - Both babies are in their highchairs and splitting a banana for breakfast. I notice my hair is starting to dry and I haven't even combed it yet. I take advantage of the high chair time and start combing my hair. My phone rings interrupting me, it's Jace's doctors office reminding me he has an appointment tomorrow. My other line starts beeping in. It's my boss, she wants to discuss our work meeting tonight. So much for combing my hair.
9:10 am - Still on the phone with my boss, the boys have finished their banana so I sprinkle cheerios on their trays to buy myself another couple minutes.
9:15 am - Off of the phone, hair combed, and giving the boys a little cheese for some morning protein. (Jace is new to cheese so he gets just a little and I watch to make sure he doesn't get a stomach ache or anything strange after eating it.)
9:20 am - Boys are still enjoying the remains of their breakfast so I take advantage and load the dishwasher. It boggles my mind how many dishes can stack up in this house when Tate's out of town. I must really eat alot! Emptying or loading the dishwasher when the boys are napping isn't possible because Micah is very sound sensitive and would wake up. It's also not possible to do while they're out of their highchairs because, no matter how many times I say "no", they love to climb on the dishwasher and try to pull out the silverware.
9:25 am - The boys are out of their highchairs and Jace is playing with his wood puzzle. Micah is pulling on my pant leg and screaming while I wash off the highchair trays. I then attempt to sweep up all of the cheerios that wound up on the floor. Micah and Jace think this is a fun game and try to eat the cheerios off the floor before I can get them.
9:30 am - We head into Jace's room to get him dressed and ready for the day. I have to distract him with his toothbrush in order to get him to sit still while I change him. He loves brushing his own teeth! I change his outfit, then help his brush his teeth more effectively, and brush his hair. Micah has calmed down a bit now and is distracted by a train toy... no more tears from him. When I put Jace's toothbrush away he starts crying because he wants it back.
9:35 am - I notice Jace's laundry basket is getting full so I throw a load of laundry in the laundry room next door. Both boys think I'm leaving them forever and burst into tears. They are happy when I return just a minute later. My latte is cold, so I pop it in the microwave, it doesn't taste good anymore. Blah.
9:40 am - We play in Jace's bedroom, their favorite things to play with today are the alphabet blocks, the blow up zebra, matchbox cars, and the lap top. They also love hanging out together in the tent, sometimes I will go in too but then it gets crowded and a little hot in there. They think it's hilarious when I come in though, so I try to squeeze in once in a while.
9:50 am - Jace pulls the lamp over, knocking a picture off the wall. I grab the hammar and move the picture to a different spot because I forsee this happening over and over again.
10:05 am - We're all still playing in Jace's room. The laundry is done, so I go switch the wash into the dryer. They hardly notice that I left.
10:10 am - I take advantage of the fact that they're playing so nicely together and pull out the stockings I picked up for us the other day. I wanted all three of us (Tate, Jace and I) to have matching stockings this year so I picked up some plain ones and some glue and glitter to write our names.
10:30 am - The boy's are emptying the cupboards of tupperware and pots and pans.
10:35 am - Both Jace and Tate's names look fine on their stockings. Easy peasy.
10: 45 am - The boys and I are playing together in the living room. They're playing with the wooden peg puzzle (putting the peices in their mouths mostly) and with the little people barn. I think I should check my email/facebook/etc. so I sit down at the computer. Micah doesn't like this and immediately comes up and starts jumping up and down screaming and pulling on my pant leg. Jace then comes over and starts laughing at him and trying to give him a hug. Then Jace starts putting the computer cords in his mouth. Game over. Looks like all I had was junk email anyways.
10: 55 am - The boys are playing with a box, inside the box is a blow up ball pit that I haven't set up yet. They are hinting they want me to set it up by pushing it around and sitting on it. Not today!
11:00 am - My phone rings, it's my mom, she said she would watch Jace for me tonight while I work and have my meeting. (3-7:30pm) She says now my littlest brother Alex has basketball practice at 7 and she'll have to take Jace with her. She wants me to leave my car with the carseat installed with her and take her mini van back to work. Hmm... I know this won't work because Jace is in a rear-facing tall carseat in the back of my two door SUV, she doesn't have good enough shoulders and isn't tall enough to hoist him in and buckle him up. I could uninstall it and re-install it in her car, but this will take at least 25 minutes for me to do, and then have to do again when I pick him up later. Now I'm annoyed, I'll come up with a solution later, maybe my brother can hitch a ride to practice with someone else. I can't bring Jace to work with me tonight, it's absolutely not an option, and I also have no other option for child care.
11:05 am - While I'm on the phone trying to sort out the plan with my mom Jace breaks into the recycling which we keep under the sink and walks out into the living room with two pop cans. He doesn't like when I take them away from him and say "no".
11:10 am - Picking up tupperware and pots and putting them back in the cupboards while trying to get the boys to leave them be. It's a little early for lunch, but they both are starting to look tired so I put them in their highchairs for a mini-lunch before their naps.
11:15 am - The boys are eating whole grain bread and green beans for their mini-lunch. I take advantage of this time and empty the dishwasher. I also start some soup on the stove for me to eat for lunch. Jace says "done" a few minutes later to let me know he's finished.
11:35 am - I try my best to distract Jace with toys and singing while I change his diaper, it doesn't work and he sits up and rolls around before I can wipe him off, poop is getting everywhere. I don't know how to stop this behavior, I so miss how he used to sit still for diaper changes. I wrangle Jace back up and get him cleaned up, I manage to fasten a new diaper on him as he crawls away. Micah is trying to play with the dirty diaper, in the trash it goes and Micah gets his hands washed. I don't even bother trying to put Jace's jeans back on right now, since he's going down for a nap.
11:40 am - I read Dr Suess' "There's a Wocket in my Pocket" to them. They both love it. I think Dr Suess writes the best books for toddlers!
11:45 am - Jace is in his crib, the blinds are shut and his sound machine is set on "rain". He doesn't fight his nap, he just lays there and gets ready to fall asleep.
11:50 am - I put Micah back in his highchair (his happy place) and give him a toy. I know he will fall asleep within 5 minutes. He refuses to nap anywhere I've tried at my house, but one day he fell asleep at lunch in the highchair and now everyday at 11:45 he's out like a light in the highchair. Hey, at least it's some sort of routine! I know he'll nap for about 30-40 minutes like this usually, so I grab my soup and a diet coke and sit down at the computer to eat and start blogging about my morning. Hopefully I haven't forgotten too many of the events so far!
12:20 pm - Done eating, done blogging, boys are both napping, and Jace's laundry is done and ready to be folded.
12:30 pm - I'm starting to fold laundry, Micah is stirring in his high chair, I try to sit completely still so he goes back to sleep. Then he starts crying... still hopeful that he'll go back to sleep.
12:33 pm - Micah is now crying and stomping his feet in the highchair, tantrum style. I give him a few crackers, hoping that will calm him down and he'll remember the highchair is for eating and sleeping, not crying. He loves the crackers... here's hoping that if I stay away he'll fall back asleep, I know he's still tired.
12:35 pm - Some of Jace's clothes are folded, but the majority of the load needs to be hung up and I'm mad that I forgot all of the hangers in Jace's room before he went down for a nap. I don't dare go in there to get them now and risk waking him up. I guess the laundry will have to wait a bit longer to be put away.
12:40 pm - Micah is loving his crackers and is eating them incredibly slowly since he's still half asleep.
12:45 pm - I try to quickly put on a little makeup since I won't have any other oppurtunity before work, but Micah is now crying. I take him out of his chair and make him a bottle. I leave him to hold it and start washing off his tray and cleaning up the mess of green beans he's thrown on the floor. He doesn't like that I'm not holding his bottle for him and stops drinking, sits up and chases after me crying.
12:50 pm - Micah and I play with the toy table and he's very talkative. He's usually his happiest at this time of day, after lunch and a cat nap.
12:52 pm - Micah is pooping. Oh crap, I forgot to bring out diapers and wipes out of the bedroom when I put Jace down for a nap!
12:55 pm - Thankfully the diaper bag was in the entry closet, I could successfully change Micah's diaper without waking Jace.
1:00 pm - Micah and I practice standing on his own. He's just started letting go of things, he'll usually stand for a few seconds and then sit down. No steps yet, but I'm sure those will be soon enough!
1:10 pm - Washing bottles and lunch dishes. Micah is playing with tupperware again. His banging on the floor is bound to wake up Jace soon.
1:11 pm - Micah wakes up Jace with his banging. Jace is playing with his mobile standing in his crib when we go in.
1:15 pm - Made Jace a bottle and took advantage of the milky distraction by changing his diaper and getting his pants back on. Micah is pulling all the DVDs off the rack.
1:18 pm - Since both boys are distracted I start getting things together for Jace's evening at my moms. Bottles, sippy cups, meals, snacks, diapers, toys and pjs. Hopefully he has enough stuff for 4-5 hours he'll be spending over there. I hate leaving him places for more than an hour or two... now that he's mobile he requires constant supervision and if people aren't used to him, he can be pretty exhausting. I don't remember the last time I had to take him to my moms to babsit, but it's been a few months. Hopefully she can handle him now that he's running all over.
1:20 pm - Boys are distracted so I disappear into the bathroom to flat iron a couple peices of my hair. Before I had Jace I always wondered why mom's let themselves go... now I get it, you just don't have the time to fuss about how you look anymore, and don't have the energy to care that much either.
1:25 pm - Hanging up Jace's clothes... Micah tries to strangle himself with the cord to the playstation controller he was playing with. Put away playstation and found more appropriate toys for Micah to play with. Started walking into Jace's room and said "come on boys!", they start following me and Jace mimicks "''mon, 'mon" (come on.)
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| We are little helpers! |
1:40 pm - Clothes are all put away. Something that should have taken 5 minutes, took 25. Jace and Micah got into the recycling while I was hanging things up. Jace has apparently learned by observation what we do with diet coke cans... he kept lifting up the empty can and making a slurping noise.
1:45 pm - The boys are laughing and playing together in the tent. They are playing a toy that sings the alphabet song, Jace loves to sing along to it. Even though he can't pronounce the letters properly the fact that he tries is so cute :)
2:00 pm - I make Jace a veggie and bean buritto, hoping that he'll be nice and full before we head to grandma's. He tries to throw his plate and fork on the floor right away so I take them away and put the food directly on his tray. He's not hungry and doesn't want to eat any.
2:05 pm - Jace and Micah are yelling back and forth, Jace's food remains untouched. I put the DVDs back on the rack. Micah immediately starts taking them off again.
2:10 pm - I'm picking up tupperware off the floor, loading the dishwasher, and trying to pick up toys while holding Micah so he doesn't just take them all out again.
2:15 pm - I start singing the "Clean up" song and the boys think I'm crazy. They don't know what I'm doing, but they think it's fun and want to play with everything I'm "cleaning up".
2:20 pm - Dana gets here to pick up Micah. I realize I'm going to be late to work.
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| I want to bring Elmo to Grandma's! |
3:05 pm - Get to my moms house and unload Jace, give her info on eating and drinking, show her what's in his bag, etc.
3:10 pm - Heading back to WBL for work.
3:40 pm - Get to work. Catch up on sales calls. Then my boss and I start decorating the clubhouse with Christmas decor for our Holiday Resident Council meeting tonight. It's a potluck, I brought a veggie and dip platter since everyone else is bringing a main dish. I have an appointment coming at 5:30 to fill out a lease so I prepare for them.
5:15 pm - Call my appointment just to make sure they're on their way, she tells us she's rented elsewhere and forgot to call and let us know... lame. I'll have to find someone else to rent that apartment this weekend.
6:00 pm - Our Resident Council Holiday party starts. We all eat a big potluck dinner and talk about community related things. Then we all start setting up the Christmas Tree. This turns into a disaster because half of the lights on the pre-lit tree won't turn on. This continues until...
7:50 pm - Get to my mom's house and Jace is napping on her lap. She said he'd been napping that way for about 40 minutes... it looks like it's going to be a late night now.
8:00 pm - I've changed Jace's diaper and put him in his pajamas for the car ride home.
8:10 pm - We're on our way home from my moms. I catch up with my boss on the phone. She lets me know what I missed from the rest of the meeting.
8:35 pm - We are finally pulling into the parking lot... I can't carry Jace, his diaper bag, the leftover veggie tray and the egg nog up three flights of stairs, so I leave the food in the car for now. It's cold enough out there. We're way behind on Jace's normal bedtime routine now. There will be no time for a bath tonight, so he'll have to take one before his appointment tomorrow. (Don't want the doctor to think he stinks!)
8:40 pm - Jace finds snacks in his diaper bag and whines for them. I put him in his highchair and give him some food for a bedtime snack. I pick up the scattered toys in the living room while he eats. His bedroom is a toy disaster too, but it will have to stay that way for tonight.
8:50 pm - I make Jace a bottle before bed. He drinks it slow and leisurely, he doesn't seem very thirsty.
9:00 pm - We're about an hour past Jace's normal bedtime and he's showing no signs of being tired. Note to self: remember to tell grandma that Jace isn't allowed to nap at 7 pm!
9:05 pm - We read an Elmo book called "So Big", then we re-read it again together. Then Jace flips through it on his own at his own pace, turning each page slowly. He especially likes the last page where a big Elmo folds out with arms in the air and says "So big!"
9:20 pm - I take Jace into his room and we turn out the lights and turn the sound machine on to "rain" he immediately starts rubbing his eyes and lays his head on my chest. We talk about how much fun we had today and what we're looking forward to tomorrow. I lay him down and he doesn't cry, just lays there content. We say goodnight and I shut his door.
9:25 pm - Ahhh... peace and quiet! What should I do now?? Sleep? Tate will be home from Atlanta within an hour or two, so I'll try to stay up and wait for him. But, I'm already feeling like I won't make it more than another hour. I pull up my laptop and start trying to remember all of the events of the last few hours. I am super happy to be home, and on the couch relaxing! It's nice and warm in here and I have my slippers on... I'm contemplating making something warm to drink. I should work on Thank You cards for Jace's birthday party guests... but I can't bring myself to do that right now... for now I will just enjoy the quiet, and look forward to seeing Jace's smiling face again first thing tomorrow morning :)
2 comments:
Wow, you are busy with those two! Isn't it funny how totally different two kids can be that are almost the same age? Jace seems so calm and relaxed and goes to sleep so easy and Micah is the complete opposite! It always makes me wonder what baby #2 in my life will be like.. will they be like Allie (totally high-strung, Type A personality) or more relaxed?
Yea, they're definitely different... but Jace used to be a horrible napper, so hopefully Micah turns into a good one soon too! :)
Also, even though Jace is much more easy going (in the crying and clinging department), he's definitely more of a "trouble maker"... he likes to get into everything and test his boundries. Micah is content sitting still and playing with toys.
I guess you'll have to have another one and see! All I can say is that two babies puts things into a whole new perspective and I have so much respect for those people who have multiples, I don't know how they do it all the time!!
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