We start off early at 8:00 AM. He still hasn't mastered sleeping throughout the entire night, and still whines (not cries!) for a bottle mid-night, so we are a little lazy for the first couple of minutes getting out of bed. We religiously watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Handy Manny on Disney Junior while we play with a few toys. For a not-even-seven-month-old he has an incredible attention span.
By the time we change diapers, spend time playing with Sophie and our Bug-a-loop and hang out in the crib it's 10:30am! Into the living room to get him some breakfast. Today his breakfast of choice (not his choice yet, unfortunately!) is a Heinz Baby : Farley's Biscuits (original, he hates banana) which he loves because he tries to be so independent already. Anything he can eat on his own if great in his books! His biscuit and a 4oz bottle of formula later and he's ready to go for a nap so Mommy can start her day!
His naps sometimes last thirty minutes and span to sometimes two hours, either way it's the time I get to myself to check emails, browse Facebook, eat breakfast and tend to any other household chores that have to get done. How someone so small accumulates so much laundry, I will never know, and outside for a few minutes to water his plant! Back in, it's 12:00PM and Kaiden is awake.
He is such a "meat and potatoes" man as my mother calls it. You can offer him other vegetables, he will taste it begrudgingly. Fruit, he will squinch up his face as soon as the sweetness (or sourness) hits his taste buds. Give my child any potato or meat puree and he'll eat the legs off the table. I'm sure that's not a figure of speech if he could walk. Today we are making organic sweet potatoes in our Magic Bullet (because our As Seen On TV store exchanges magic bullets for baby bullets in a week!)
He is such a "meat and potatoes" man as my mother calls it. You can offer him other vegetables, he will taste it begrudgingly. Fruit, he will squinch up his face as soon as the sweetness (or sourness) hits his taste buds. Give my child any potato or meat puree and he'll eat the legs off the table. I'm sure that's not a figure of speech if he could walk. Today we are making organic sweet potatoes in our Magic Bullet (because our As Seen On TV store exchanges magic bullets for baby bullets in a week!)
We eat our lunch together because he definitely tries to mimic me at this point. Mommy eats, Kaiden eats. Mommy eats, Kaiden eats! Then we take a little stroll outside (only because today isn't too unbearable of a hot day) where Kaiden is stopped plenty of times by people claiming he's "so beautiful!".
Back inside, at which point his Nanny is home from her work day and spends time with him until his Poppy also gets home from work and they take him out for yet again, another walk. Time to change him again, he got dirty eating lunch without a bib, whoops! ?Now I have time to finish any laundry, text some friends and start cooking dinner (if it's my night, which tonight happens to be.) Ranch crusted pork chops, Cesar salad and ranch&bacon roasted potatoes.
He's back and now it's reading time. He loves to sit in his Mega Splash Exersaucer or his Baby Einstein Jumperoo and listen to me talk to him, play peek-a-boo, or read him books after books. Sometimes he turns his head like he is retaining the information and staring at my thoughtfully, and I laugh behind the book as to not interrupt his concentration.
We spend a few minutes eating more food (chicken and mixed vegetables) in his highchair, sit down for a quick bottle and rest awhile before it's 9:00PM and it's bath time.
My son loves, loves, loves, loves the bathtub. I'm quite sure if I left him in it all day he would be pleased. He splashes around, laughs, lays back and sucks on a facecloth constantly. He is SUCH a happy baby in the first place, but in the tub he's even more amusing.
And then we are off to bed where we co-sleep (whether with myself or his grandma, depending on who's less tired) and sing him songs of love and good fortune, and he finally rests his little head to lay down at 10:30 - 11:00 PM.
