Prepare to Be Bored: My Everyday Life

I've done the vague overview of my day and then two stories from my day. Today we get the full on what one of my days is like post. There's only going to be one because at this point in life every day is pretty much the same. My days are really not exciting. But there's a certain beauty in the monotony of my every day. 

Husband woke me up at 7. This is actually new to this week. Prior to the arrival of M in our world I would sleep until 8 and C would play in his room or in our room and let me. Now I have to be on my A-game all day so being conscious before Husband leaves is a good thing.

We went through our new-typical morning routine where everyone does their own thing and we all make it downstairs by 7:30. Husband washed some dishes for me before his departure. I "made" a breakfast for C. He gets a blueberry Nutragrain bar. And milk. Apparently my child is being sustained on Nutragrain bars as that was his "main item" for dinner last night as well. I suppose there are worst things to eat every day.

The morning passed with little of interest. We played cars and animals. We read books. We changed diapers and while we're down on the floor we do tummy time. And I had to bribe C with pictures of tractors (Google Image Search) to get out of M's car seat and bring her nuki back while I fed her. Yesterday it was the rock n play. I think he's just testing me.

We got okay mail. A card from my Grandpa. An American Girl catalog. No bills. Some junk. What am I saying? That is a GREAT mail day.

I turned on Despicable Me. There comes a time every day where I just need to get something done and that is where Despicable Me comes in. I do try to keep the TV off for the rest of the day to make up for this assembly of minions. During the movie I folded the laundry I washed and dried yesterday and M did more tummy time. C quoted the movie to me and unfolded everything in his pile. 

After refolding the pile I started prepping lunch. The menu included shrimp poppers, green beans, corn and apple slices. I was trying to use up our Connell Reds because it's not my favorite apple variety. We ate and C actually ate one of the shrimp poppers. For a kid who eats little to no meat it was a rare sight.

Because I was feeding M, I got C up for rest time late. (1:10) The result is 30 minutes of him not in his bed while M fed on the other side. I am not good enough at nursing yet to be able to just wander around the house so I hollered but eventually put M down and went up to put him to bed. After I tucked him in for the second time he asked to sing the Sunshine song. (You are my Sunshine) We sang it 3 times. Once he helped sings, once I sing his own special C version and once just normal but by myself. He wanted to sing Baby Beluga but I just said I love you and have a good rest, This was enough to get him to sleep. Ten minutes late to nap sure puts a spoke in his wheel though.

I came back downstairs and because M was sleeping I started to clean and tidy the living room. I got about 7 minutes in and M woke up. We snuggled and M took a nap snuggled on me. I may have dozed off but mostly just perused the internet. I did make a phone call and send some emails out so it was not an entirely unproductive rest. With 15 minutes left of rest time I put M in the rock n play so I could finish getting things clean. The room is driving me nuts so even if it's a complete mess just a little later it will be worth it to me to have it clean for a few minutes. After I got the floor picked up I dusted the coffee table and television. The sticky hand prints were no match for Pledge Multi-Surface!

At 4:00 I woke up C. He is a beast because his nap was almost an hour short. I bribed him downstairs with the prospect of vacuuming! He bought it. We vacuumed and life was good.

We Skyped with my brother at college. Then we looked at pictures of penguins. Google image searches are pretty nifty for distracting/entertaining/appeasing 2 year olds.

We read his new dragon book and looked at pictures on my phone. Husband called right in the middle of that which brought on a total meltdown. Husband got home. We (M and I) Skyped with my dad while C had a fit. (No idea why.) Then we all convened to the kitchen to make dinner. C was still throwing a fit so I thought we could bake a cake. That didn't work well. He had to go to time out for a bit with Husband. When he was back under control, the cake went in the oven. Husband made eggs, bacon and blueberry pancakes for dinner and C licked the beater.

Since he was already messy we added some blueberry syrup to his pancake. He did a good job eating it AND had 2 pieces of bacon. It was a record setting meat eating day for him. Al Roker has weather forecasts but C had meat eating!

After dinner we all went immediately upstairs for showers. C went first. He may or may not have revolted when it wasn't his turn anymore. I got to go next and then M. Once we were all in pajamas and smelling good, we went back downstairs for the last few minutes of Wheel of Fortune.

We sort of watched The Big Bang Theory, or rather it was on. It is hard to watch shows with toddlers and newborns around. Plus... central time zone is dumb because shows start before bedtime! So during that there was more reading and playing.

We Skyped with my parents until Husband to C to bed at 8:00, right on time. After I was done talking to my mom, we got ready to go upstairs for the night. I frosted the cake and put the lid on it and the last 3 members headed up the steps.

We updated some addresses on our spreadsheet because we have birth announcements to send. Now it is 10:22 and I am going to hit publish and go to sleep!

And that was my Thursday in a nutshell. I make no apologies but it wasn't a super exciting day.