Derek kissed me goodbye a little before 6 on his way out the door for work, and then my alarm went off at 6:05...but I don't remember any of that. ;) At 6:15 my alarm went off again, and I begrudgingly woke up and played around my phone for a bit checking my Facebook newsfeed & reading blogs as I slowly woke up. I like to set my alarm to wake up before the girls so I can get ready for the day & cross off a few chores before Shelby & Hadley need all of my attention. At 6:30, I dragged myself out of bed to shower & get ready for the day. Shelby didn't wake up & come downstairs until 7 this morning (it's usually anywhere between 6:40-7:15), so I had plenty of time to shower, dry my hair, do my make-up, and throw on some clothes before my mommy duties began. Once she was downstairs, we went straight to the couch to read some books while she drank her morning cup of milk & had her vitamin.
This morning she chose to read The Lorax, and by the time we got to the second page we could already hear Hadley waking up over the monitor. We quickly finished the book & headed up stairs to get Hadley out of her crib.
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| Shelby is always SO excited to run up to Hadley's room! |
Hadley wasn't really interested in her milk, so by the time we finished one book in her room she was already fighting to get out of my lap. So we stopped storytime, and I sent Shelby back to her room to make her bed while I changed Hadley's diaper.
After Shelby made her bed, we started to head downstairs for breakfast but Hadley was demanding a bow. And by demanding, I mean she bangs her hand on her head and yells "bow!" repeatedly until a bow is in her hair. ;) So we went back for a bow & then headed downstairs. The girls selected cars to play with while I prepped breakfast. Truth be told, Shelby actually asked for a fishing game to play with. The fishing game got donated before we moved to Texas, and this is the first time Shelby had brought up since the move. When I fibbed & told her I didn't know what she was talking about, she quickly replied "Oh, Mommy! You know our fishing game from Biloxi, Mississippi!" Oops! ;) Thankfully, they were appeased with the cars.
In the five minutes or so it took me to prep breakfast, they'd already moved on to books. ;) They both spend a lot more time reading than they do playing with toys! It was 7:55 by this poing, and finally breakfast is served! This morning we had Eggo waffles & strawberries. I am such a creature of habit--we usually have waffles two mornings a week, cereal two mornings a week, and bagels the other morning.
After breakfast, the girls went back to playing cars & princesses while I quickly cleaned up the kitchen. Then I joined in them in the living room for some playtime. Here's a delightful video I captured during our playtime:
I finally convinced the girls to clean up their toys, so we could do a quick art project before it was time to get dressed. I had found a Hello Kitty painting book where you just paint with water the night before in our cabinet of art stuff & thought it would be a good (read: less messy) introduction of paint brushes to Hadley.
This activity lasted all of about 2 minutes before Hadley dumped the cup of water over despite me holding it almost the entire time. ;) By now, it was about 9:10, so we headed upstairs to get dressed. Usually the girls never want to stop an activity to go upstairs, but thankfully we randomly started singing the Frozen lyrics to the song "For the First Time in Forever:" "Tell the guards to open up the gates!" and they both race to the gate at the bottom of the stairs & wait for me to come open it. ;) Works like a charm!! Once we got upstairs, we got both girls dressed, fixed hair, brushed teeth, went potty, changed a diaper, read a book, and did a little playing. At 9:30, we headed back downstairs to put shoes on, pack snacks, and load up the car for Pump It Up (an indoor playplace with inflatables). I called my mom on the drive there while the girls listened to their Frozen CD. In case you missed my post yesterday, Hadley did {THIS} while we were at Pump It Up!
After Pump It Up, the girls ate snack in the car & we headed to the library to return books & check out a few new ones. Shelby is always so excited to read her new books in the car on the way home!
We got home around 12:15, and the girls colored while I prepped lunch.
After a minor tantrum from Hadley b/c I took the crayons out of her hands in order to put her in the highchair, lunch is served!! We eat pretty much the exact same lunch Monday through Friday. Shelby gets a peanut butter sandwich, banana, and another fruit of her choosing. Sometimes, she'll also get goldfish or wheat thins--today it was Chex Mix. I usually have a PBJ (which Shelby calls a jelly sandwich, ha!), fruit, and some type of cracker or chip. Hadley eats a hodge podge meal: a piece of cheese, banana, whatever other fruit Shelby or I are eating, and a bowl of oatmeal.
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| Shelby wondering why I am taking a picture of her eating lunch ;) |
After lunch, the girls went back to coloring while I cleaned up the kitchen. By the time I finished the kitchen, the girls were still content coloring so I ran over to my laptop to reply to a message on Etsy about Shelby's birthday invitation. I came back two minutes later to this:
I quickly announced it was time to clean up and head upstairs for naps. ;) Shelby asked to bring up the crayons & her coloring page to finish her picture in her bedroom while I got Hadley ready for nap. Hadley threw a little tantrum while I changed her diaper & put her in her sleep sack, but she cheered right up for storytime. I love how she always blows kisses & hugs her bear when we put her down in her crib, such a sweet baby! After putting Hadley down, it was time to help Shelby brush her teeth and go potty before reading one of her new library books. Then we had to discuss our favorite parts of the day before she allowed me to leave her room. ;)
NAP TIME!!!! Both girls are usually down by around 1:30. I usually get about two hours of peace & quiet. We've been going to the pool a lot lately, so a chunk of naptime is taken up by me having to shower during naps a couple of days a week. But since I already showered in the morning, I have extra free time! I spend a few minutes scrolling through Facebook and blogs after I get the girls down to relax before I start tackling my to-do list. Most of my household chores were already accomplished the day before, so the only must-do item on the list was a load of laundry..hooray! (The bulk of my chores are reserved for naptime with the exception of cleaning up from meals & folding a load of laundry here & there.) After I got the laundry started, I moved on to uploading videos of the girls to YouTube from my phone, trasnferring pictures from my phone to the laptop, & blogging. I also chatted on Facebook for a few minutes with Angela before I was startled by a loud sound upstairs--Shelby was trying to open her bedroom door while holding her very full bag of library books. ;) I was shocked she was already awake since it was only 3:00. (Naptime always FLIES by!) Hadley is almost always awake first, so I was excited Shelby was up first so we could enjoy our post-nap stories without a fidgety baby disturbing us for a change. ;) We read several books on the couch while Shelby drank her afternoon cup of milk. Around 3:45 or so, Shelby got up to play princesses while I folded some laundry. Then we headed upstairs to get Hadley up from her nap and do milk & stories in her room. Next up, I changed Hadley's diaper and put her laundry away while Shelby went to her room to put her laundry away & make her bed. Then we ended up playing in Shelby's room for a while.
We finally came downstairs around 5ish for snacktime. Shelby requested apples, but we didn't have any left so she settled for applesauce. She likes to drink hers with a straw. ;) She's never been big on snacks, so I had to prod and prod her to finish and I ended up feeding her the last half. Hadley, on the other hand, LIVES for snacks and hers was gone in about two seconds flat. ;)
Then it was time to put on shoes and head out for our daily afternoon stroll to the mailbox. Shelby was whining that her heel hurt, so she opted to stay home & listen to a book on CD while Hadley and I checked the mail. We ran into a neighbor at the mailbox, and I enjoyed catching up with her for a while since I hadn't seen her since a recent trip they took. Then the girls & I headed to the back porch for some fun with chalk, bubbles, & the water table until Derek got home from work. Derek got home around 6:15, and we reported to him that we spotted MORE wasps while we were playing (we had a serious bug problem when we moved in, and the wasps are still lingering!)....so he immediately handled that before we sat down to dinner. Tonight was an easy night, we made white chicken chili a few weeks ago and froze half of it. I love making big meals and freezing half to make another night easy :) Shelby gets the same thing for dinner every evening pretty much--yogurt, a fruit and/or veggie, granola bar, & sometimes chicken nuggets. Hadley usually eats whatever we're eating along with some of what Shelby's eating. ;) During dinner, Derek & Shelby had their nightly dinner conversation about Derek's diagnoses from the allergy clinic--it's the first thing she asks him every night at the dinner table! She loves hearing about it!
Derek & Shelby went outside after dinner to investigate the wasp situation some more (since the wasps were dead now, Shelby wanted to see where their nests were & what they looked like!), while I did the dishes. Here was my view while I worked:
Derek had planned to take Shelby for a run after dinner, but she was clearly getting tired already due to her short nap. So he went for a quick solo run (he has a PFT coming up, otherwise he would have skipped it) while I bathed the girls. Hadley was acting really off during bath, so it made for a very quick bath. Fortunately, she cheered right up afterwards.
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| Hadley was enjoying brushing Shelby's hair :) These pics are blurry, but I wanted to include them b/c they were so cute :) |
Derek puts Hadley to bed 99% of the time, but since he had gone for a run it was fun to get to put her to bed myself for a change. :) Hadley goes to bed between 7:30-8 most nights, which is so funny b/c Shelby was always in bed SO early as a baby! Hadley never gets grumpy at night, so we keep her up with us to enjoy family time. :)
Once Hadley was down, Derek was home just in time for a quick game of Slap Jack with Shelby before it was time for her to potty, brush teeth, and have her two stories. She usually goes to bed between 8:30-9 since she still naps for so long and because we like her to be able to stay up "late" (aka after Hadley) to have special one-on-one time with us for activities that aren't easy to do when Hadley is awake, such as card games, puzzles, etc. On this night, Shelby was in bed by 8:15 b/c of her short nap.
Once Shelby is down, Derek & I usually relax & talk for a few minutes before we get busy with chores, etc. Tonight we created a grocery list together & discussed buying new cups for the girls (exciting, I know!!!!) before he hopped in the shower & starated studying. While he was doing that, I finished up the dishes & cleaned the kitchen sink before sitting down to type this blog post. ;) We always went to bed fairly early in Biloxi b/c Derek loves his sleep & is adamant we both go to bed at the same time. I always kind of wanted to stay up a bit later & enjoy the quiet house while the girls were asleep. But since we moved our bedtime has been VERY late. In the beginning it was b/c nights were our chance to get unpacked & settled, but now it's b/c Derek has a lot of studying to do in the evenings. Now I'm the one begging for early bedtimes. ;) Derek finally finished up his studying a little before 11 and wanted to relax a bit before going to bed. He offered to scoop up some ice cream for us, which I never refuse, so we enjoyed our ice cream and I agreed to let us watch my least favorite show of his ever--Going Deep. I'm not a big TV person, but Derek definitely is. He never understands how I can be home all day & never the TV on, ha! Most of his favorite shows (Pawn Stars, Naked & Afraid, & other random History Channel stuff) eventually grow on me after a while, but Going Deep has not grown on me. ;) The show was over by 11:30 andwe quickly turned off the TV & lights and finally headed to bed before waking up to do it all over again the next day! I'm so thankful for our little life, especialy for how hard Derek works for me to be able to spend my days with our two sweet girls!
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