A Day in the Life

I've seen lots of bloggers do a "day in the life" type of post, and I thought that would be fun to do so I can look back one day and remember how Shelby and I spent our days together. Here's a little peak into what our day-to-day life looks like.

Morning Routine
**Shelby usually wakes up around 8-8:30, and I'm usually up around 7...I love having a quiet start to the day! Some mornings, I shower and get ready for the day before Shelby wakes up. Other days, I spend the morning catching up on email, dishes, chores, etc.
**The first thing I do when I go into Shelby's room in the mornings is pick up everything she's thrown out of her crib. {Click HERE for Exhibit A.} Then we change her diaper and head downstairs for her morning bottle of milk. She snuggles in my lap with her bottle while I watch the news. {At least one--if not both of us--are still in our PJ's at this point.}
**After the bottle, Shelby takes her vitamin while watching a DVR'ed episode of Super Why. {She takes a Flinstone chewable vitamin, but she just sucks on it...so sometimes it takes her the duration of the episode to finish it..ha!}
**During Super Why, I catch up on chores downstairs--dishes, laundry, email, etc.
**After Super Why, Shelby & I eat breakfast together then we head upstairs to get dressed.

Morning Activity
**On days we stay home, we usually play downstairs for a bit before heading out for a stroll & then playing outside. But most weekdays we have somewhere to be...here's a look at our weekly activities:

Monday: stay at home day or Kid Swap {more on that later}
Tuesday: storytime at the library followed by playtime at Excel by Five
Wednesday: Early Intervention
Thursday: playgroup or Excel by Five
Friday: stay at home day
Saturday: stay at home day
Sunday: stay at home day
{Shelby working on her craft project after storytime at the library}

**We usually wrap up our morning activity and try to be back at home around noon. Shelby will usually play in the living room for a bit while I prep her lunch. Some days I eat lunch with her, but I often wait and eat during naptime so I can have a relaxing lunch. :)
**After lunch, we head upstairs for a quick diaper change and a few books before naptime commences.

Naptime
**Shelby usually goes down for her nap around 12:45-1ish and will sleep for about 3 hours. This is my precious time!
**During naptime, I try to do all of the following tasks: work out to a video (not everyday, but a couple of days a week), shower (if I didn't shower before Shelby woke up that morning or if I worked out..obvi!), eat lunch, and any chores on my chore chart {which I posted about HERE..and I'm pretty proud of myself for keeping up with it!} for the day. And I'm pretty sure I check Facebook & blogs way too many times during this time, too. Ugh.

Afternoon Activity
**When Shelby wakes up {usually around 4}, I go into her room and pick up everything she's thrown out of her crib...again! Then we do a quick diaper change before heading downstairs.
**Once we're downstairs, Shelby has her afternoon bottle & snack.
**After snack time, we are ready for the "activity" of the afternoon! Our afternoons are much less structured. The only afternoon activity that is set in stone is Kindermusik class on Thursdays. All of the other days, we just do whatever sounds good to us that afternoon! Sometimes we just stay home and play with our toys or play outside, go for a walk with a neighbor, run to Target, etc.

Evening Routine
**We usually feed Shelby her dinner at 6ish. If Derek is home, we will eat with her; but we often eat our dinner after she's already gone to bed for the night.
**After dinner, the Four B's immediately begin. Bath. Bottle. Books. Bed. We typically take a bath every single night b/c Shelby gets so messy with her food throughout the day! For my memory's sake, here are a couple shots of post bath & bottle hair. I love how curly her hair is when it's wet!


Bedtime
**Shelby is usually in bed around 7:30-8. As much as I love Shelby, I long for this time of the day b/c by 7:30 I AM WORN OUT!
**If we haven't eaten dinner yet, we try to do that as soon as Shelby goes down for the night. Then, if we're feeling ambitious, we might tackle a few things on our to-do list that need to be accomplished/discussed together....but typically we just finish the dishes, pick up the toys, and collapse on the couch to watch whatever is on our DVR.
**We often determine our bedtime based on how early Derek has to be at the hospital the next day, but we typically head upstairs around 10:30 to rest up to do it all again the next day! ;)