I am up by 5:00AM, although JE decided he was hungry about 4:30AM a few mornings so, yawn…, I was up at 4:30AM. Once I'm up I get ready while RA is on JE-patrol. Then I head downstairs for one of my favorite morning activities - coffee - and make breakfast. RF has been sleeping until 6:15AM or so, so once he gets up he gets dressed, has breakfast and then we're in the car to head to school. The mornings were pretty calm thanks to getting everything (bags, clothes, bottles, etc.) ready the night before.
Each day we had to be out the door by 6:45AM in order for me to drop off RF and get to work by 7:30AM. Lola picked up JE from our house on her way in to the office last week, so I only had to get RF out the door by 6:45AM, but this week begins getting both boys out by 6:45AM…we'll see how it goes.
Our afternoons are busy too. I pick up RF about 3:30 and JE by 4:00. We're usually home by 4:45 and get our afternoon routine of play-time (i.e. pull out ALL our toys for RF…), dinner (although last week included quite a few crock-pot meals), baths, family time, and bedtime by 8:00PM.
I'm tired just typing it all out. I am hoping that things get easier as we continue figuring out logistics with these two youngins'.
Photos from this past week…
JE hanging out in the sling as we enjoyed some outside time...
Wandering through the yard exploring everything...
Cutting grass with daddy...
Helping daddy wash the grass off of the lawnmower…
Then RF had to wash the grass off of his mower...
Helping cut the homemade dumplings...
A big spider that has made itself at home on our front porch railing...
A big, cute baby butt...
RF putting his vacuum cleaner in the closet with our actual vacuum cleaner...
A cute cloth-diapered baby boy...
RF didn't have the best weekend (another round of teething…) so when he woke up from his nap today I asked him if he would like to go get some ice cream and his response was, "Come on, mommy" and he started heading towards the door. :-)
On a side note, it's a very, very, very bad thing for the Hawk family that there is now a Dairy Queen less than three blocks from our house…very, very bad.
Cardboard box + crayons = toddler entertainment.
