Once again, the year has slipped by and not much activity has taken place on the old blog! But rare entries are better than no entries... right!?!?
Luckily, Sarah's baby book has been updated more frequently than the blog so there's that. :-)
I have a few minutes before little miss wakes up from her nap so I wanted to quickly right a few things that this mommy wants to always remember.
Here is what a typical day looks like for Mommy and Sarah right now:
7:30-8:00am - Sarah typically wakes up around this time. But sometimes she is extra sweet and sleeps until 8:30. :-) I remember when she was a few months old and she would sleep until 9 or 9:30. Those were the days.. haha!
8:00-9:00am - We do lots of different things. Micheal is up and running around getting ready for work. Sarah likes to play in her room, watch a show and just run around enjoying the morning before Daddy leaves. I usually try to jump in the shower during this time unless its one of those awesome days that I actually got up before Sarah. :-) They are not the norm... but they do happen. :-) I also try to straighten the house up a bit during this time like make the bed, empty the dishwasher and start some laundry.
9:00 - Micheal leaves for work (actually he leaves for work at 8:55 :-)). Sarah doesn't typically like to eat breakfast right when she wakes up (she takes after her mom and dad). So around 9 I start making breakfast. Her favorites are oatmeal, cheesy scrambled eggs, or waffles. On special Saturday mornings Daddy makes her pancakes. And on Wednesdays Wyatt brings donuts or as Sarah calls them (dodos). She loves dodos. <3 p="">
9:30-10:00 - We finish breakfast and I get the kitchen cleaned up and finish getting ready. Sarah runs around and plays. Sometimes she lets me dry my hair while she does her thing... but most of the time she tells me to sit in the hall and I dry my hair while she sits in my lap. She doesn't like me doing things that do not include her. LOL. It's a step up from a few months ago when she would sit in my lap and just scream and cry while I dried my hair. So things are improving. :-)
10:00-1030 - I am usually finished getting ready around this time and now its Sarah's turn. Lately she has started HATING getting dressed. Like full on screaming crying. And it all started with me dressing her in her super cute Christmas outfits. At the beginning of December we start wearing them. Its a small window so we try to wear them as often as we can. Last year I had an 8 month old who was a lot less opinionated about what she wore. This year is different. LOL. She has a Santa outfit that we have only worn once and will most likely never wear again because she has decided that is the worst shirt ever. When I say, "Sarah, what do you want to wear today?" She says "No Santa!" HAHA. Its hilarious. I try to give her a few choices of outfits and let her pick but a lot of the time she still gets upset. Once I get her dressed I fix her hair and off she goes!
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<3 p="">10:30-12:00 On most days we go to Kamille's house during this time. She has a home day care and we go play with the kids. It's so great for Sarah to have the interaction with other kids. It's neat to watch her build friendships with other kids. Karder and Wyatt are her best buds right now. And she has gotten to see all her cousins lately with the holidays and she has really enjoyed seeing them. I still keep Wyatt on Wednesdays and like I said earlier we get to see Karder and the other kids at the daycare on pretty much a daily basis so we definitely get the best of both worlds (being at home and being with other kids!) If for some reason we don't go to Kamille's during this time its usually because we have errands to run (grocery store, cleaning the church nursery, or visiting Granny Jo or Nana!).
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<3 p="">12:00-1:00 - We come home and meet Daddy for lunch! Sarah loves seeing him for this hour. We eat and then they hang out while I try to get the kitchen cleaned up and the house picked back up from all of our morning fun.
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<3 p="">1:00-3:00 - Nap Time! A glorious time for this Momma! I love my girl to pieces but its so nice to have some time for myself. I use this time for a lot of different things. Cleaning, budgeting, blogging, working on the announcements for church, quiet time with the Lord and sometimes I just veg out with netflix or a good book. But its always nice to just be alone. Sarah is an excellent napper so i can always count on this time. When she was around 15 months (when Micheal was at church camp) we started transitioning from 1 nap to 2. I was really sad because we had a wonderful schedule going but she was starting to fight her naps so I knew it was time. It took about a month and a half to really get it ironed out with 1 nap. She fell asleep in her high chair a lot haha! But now its perfect. If I have learned anything about motherhood its that everything constantly changes. And I am ok with that. :-) But I will soak up every nap I can get haha!
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<3 p="">3:00 - 5:00 - This time always varies. We have a snack usually when she wakes up from her nap and then it just depends on what we are in the mood for. Sometimes we just hang out at home and play, sometimes we go to the park if the weather is nice. (We went to the park almost every day this summer and fall!) Sometimes we meet back up with Kamille and her kiddos. But no matter what we do we always make sure we are home at 5 to meet Daddy!
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5:00-9:00 This always varies depending on the day and what our evening plans are. And around 9:00 we are putting Miss Sarah in bed.
This is such a precious moment in time and we are trying to soak up every minute! <3 p=""><3 p="">
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