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A Day in the Life – August 4th, 2015 (20 months old)

Well hey there friends! I hope you’re ready for a long post full of way too many pictures and videos because that’s exactly what I have on tap for today’s “Day in the Life” post! 
On Tuesday I had my iPhone on hand from sun up to sun down to capture our entire day. What you’ll see is very representative of what a regular summer Tuesday looks like for Hadley and me. The SAH mom life isn’t too glamorous but we have a good time; One year olds are an absolute riot. 😉
I woke up around 5:30 with Jamie to get my day started. I only recently started doing this after realizing that I could get so much more done if I knocked it out before Hadley woke up. I also feel so much more present with Hadley during the morning now because I’m not trying to juggle the miscellaneous stuff I “had” to get done. 
Around 7:10 I heard Hadley half fussing/half talking, so I turned on the video mode on my phone and walked in. Of course she announces her business the second I walk in. Real life, folks!

As soon as I changed her diaper, she ran into the kitchen and immediately demanded milk.

Lately I’ve been asking for her help with letting Teddy out to go to the bathroom and then scooping his breakfast. She has to earn her keep around here somehow! 😉 She loves helping out and having a morning routine.

 

After she finished her milk, she asked for a “nana”, so I cut up one for her and she took a seat.

After she finished her banana, we washed her hands in her bathroom and she played with her toys for about 15 minutes while I unloaded and loaded the dishwasher.
I also made myself my recent breakfast staple: One piece of whole grain toast, one slice of lunch meat, and one scrambled egg (with a generous shake of Tony C’s seasoning). Hits the spot.
We had plans to leave the house at 9:10 for a children’s singalong, so around 8 a.m. I got ready to hop in the shower. I don’t like to shower when she’s sleeping because the shower is right next to her bedroom (and I do not risk waking her up!), so I always bring a couple toys and books into my bathroom so that she’s occupied while I shower.
Once I got out of the shower I turned on Frozen on our Kindle so that she could watch about 30 minutes of that while I finished getting myself together. She doesn’t move a muscle when Frozen is on.

Of course we had to grab a hair bow before we left the house because without the Pebbles-style ponytail and hair bow she will be called a boy everywhere we go and that just kind of drives me bananas. It baffles me. People are odd sometimes. 🙂

As we were about to leave I remembered that the only thing she’d eaten was a banana, so I resorted to a no sugar-added chocolate instant breakfast (mixed with water) so that she’d have some fiber and protein down the hatch. It might not be the best solution, but desperate times calls for desperate measures when you have a picky-eating kiddo.
She also decided that the pink bow she found in the living room was a better choice than the blue.

I also fixed this water infused with limes on the way out. I got this water bottle/small pitcher at the BlogHer conference and I’m obsessed!

We didn’t get out the door till 9:20 (I didn’t incorporate taking all of these pictures into my planning!) but somehow we still made it to the sing-along on time.
Two minutes after we got to the sing-along Hadley was knocked over hard by a big kid opening a door (completely an accident), but I saw the whole thing and she was physically totally fine. Emotionally she had her feelings hurt big time, so clinging to me was all she wanted to do. We’re hoping preschool this fall will help a tad with her sensitivity. 😉
My friends Meg and Amanda were there with their kids, so I enjoyed adult convo time while Hadley half paid attention to the sing-along and had a death grip on me. 
 

After the sing-along she munched on a chocolate chip granola bar while we drove to a nearby park to get a little more energy out with her buddy Jack.

We love swings!

We had a field day watching Hadley chase Jack for a solid 10 minutes up and down the playground equipment five times in a row. Jack is a speed demon, but Hadley can hold her own! I love watching these two develop their social skills and learn to play together.

After a quick Walmart run after the park, we were back home by 11:30. When I went to get her out of her carseat I found her passed out! There’s something about a sleeping toddler in a carseat that I find so sweet. I could just stare at her all day (but I won’t because it’s HOT and we gotta get inside!).

She didn’t move a muscle when I got her out of her carseat, so I laid her straight down in bed for her afternoon nap. By this time I was getting pretty hungry, so I heated up some leftover Blue Apron summer corn chowder soup for lunch. It doesn’t look that yummy because it really wasn’t. 😉

I plopped myself in the sunroom to work on Wednesday’s blog post and catch up on some emails.
I didn’t work for long though because a couple girlfriends called (they knew Hadley was probably napping!), so I enjoyed catching up with them for a bit until Hadley woke up around 1:30. Phone calls with my loves are always a sure-fire way to put me in a great mood!
Since I put her down for a nap without giving her lunch, I scoured the house trying to figure out what she would eat. I found another bag of Modern Table’s pasta that I’d been anxious to try, so I whipped it up really quick. As soon as it was ready, Hadley woke up (lucky timing).

She ate a few bites and seemed to enjoy it. A few bites is good enough for me!

Once I noticed her slowing down I brought out some strawberries, and she devoured the whole container (there were only about eight sliced-up strawberries in there though).

We’ve been working hard on getting her to put all of her own plates, cups, etc. in the sink, and she’s finally doing a really good job at it! Since she’s still so tiny she has to make a guess where the sink actually is. A lot of her stuff just ends up on the counter, but she still gets a high five every time!

Another “job” – time to check the mail with mom! She loves it!

It started pouring after we brought in the mail, so we had some indoor play time. Coloring is serious stuff these days! PS – Check out that hair.

While she colored I went into her room to change out her sheets because she’d leaked through during her nap (since I didn’t change her diaper before her nap), and I found an apple behind her crib! What in the world?! I asked Jamie about it, and neither of us would ever let her have an apple (or any food) in her crib. Kids do crazy things! So gross.

Since it was still raining we had about an hour of quiet time. I laid on the couch and watched TV while she sat next to me and watched more Frozen.

Then we got silly and roughhoused a bit. 🙂

Once the rain stopped we took Teddy for a short walk.

We also hung out on the back deck while she decorated it with chalk. We’ve been working on circles, but so far all she can do is say the word (and it’s really, really cute).

When we came back in I realized that my house already looked like a bomb went off, and it was only around 4.

Snack time! She will eat all of three bites of this apple and then move right along. I love that cute face though!

Time to flip through books while I started prepping dinner.

We squeezed in some FaceTime with my sister and my mom.

I folded a load of laundry with the best little not-so-helper. Out the door she goes with Jamie’s shirt.

Around 5:15 she started getting a little antsy like she usually does because she’s bored with everything we’ve already done up until that point. Notice the ketchup she already grabbed out of the refrigerator. Sigh.

Jamie got home around 5:45, and I wanted to video her reaction just like I did the last couple of “Day in the Life” posts. Her reaction is weird. Go figure! She’s a goof.

Dinner time! I cut her up a few pieces of our grilled chicken and tossed some ketchup on them. Instead of eating the chicken she just licked the ketchup right off because using the chicken as a vehicle for the ketchup is what I’m supposed to do, right Mom? She also didn’t touch her grilled cheese (I gave her two options). Just can’t win with this girl in the food department. Guess who went to bed without dinner?

By 6:30 she was in full-blown diva mode all crying for no reason and wanting no part in joining us for dinner.

We gave in and let her sit and watch an episode of Mickey because there’s no reasoning with a one year old and sometimes you just have to pick your battles. We were also tired by this point and knew it was her bath time as soon as we finished eating.

Once I laid down on the couch after dinner she brought her blanket straight to me and came to snuggle. Love.
She had a little bit of playtime with Daddy, which is always one of their favorite times of the day.
Jamie does bath time every single night and I LOVE HIM SO MUCH FOR THIS. By 7:30 I’m usually toast, so I appreciate him so much for doing bath time. He was facetiming with his dad when I came in to snap a pic.

He has a routine of always bringing her into the living room to do her lotion and put on her jammies.

After he got her some milk they snuggled for a bit while he caught up on the sports world.

She quickly started going a little cray cray when she was done with her milk, so instead of sitting in the living room and reading books we went straight to her bathroom to brush her teeth. Obviously she can’t brush her teeth on her own yet, but we usually give her a minute to try before helping her out. 😉

She’s such a creature of routine. When we went in her room she went straight to her fan to (try to) turn it on.

We said goodnight prayers as a fam and then Jamie put her down.

You’d think the post would stop here, but even though she was exhausted she fussed for the next 15 minutes… loudly. She does this once every week or two, and we usually make the call to get her out of her crib or let her cry it out based on what type of cry it is. It really is amazing as parents that you can tell the difference in cries. This was a VERY upset cry, so Jamie got her up to play with her a bit and read a couple books.

After I took this picture I rocked her in her room for about 30 minutes until she fell asleep. Usually I only rock her if necessary for about five minutes, but for some reason I was really soaking it up that night. Eventually I could see her little eyes open and close over and over as she fought the sleep, but eventually they closed for good and she was out. I’ve mentioned before that I always get choked up about motherhood stuff at the most random, surprising times, and this was one of them. As I watched her fall asleep I could feel tears streaming down my cheeks. I realized that I couldn’t remember the last time I’d truly rocked my baby to sleep like that; It had probably been a year because we like to put her down when she’s awake. It was just one of those moments that tugged on my heartstrings because it gave me a glimpse of the Hadley I knew as a baby.
Jamie and I relaxed for another hour before calling it a night. I’m usually out cold by 10 because as you can tell, we are on the go all day long and it wears. me. out!

Previous Day in the Life posts:
July 17th, 2014 (eight months old)
February 25th, 2015 (15 months old)

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