it took a few months, but I finally got Skye on a scedule. Mama leaves for work at about 7:30 A.M., so Skye usually wakes up at about 6-6:30. He gets his diaper change, plays for a little while, then eats from about 7-7:30. Then he get's hungry again, at about 9:00. When he finishes his "mid-morning snack" (usually 4-6 oz. of booby juice) he plays some more until between 10-10:30, when we lay down to read our book (Today we read about how Winie-the-pooh rescued Piglet from the big flood, and then about how he discovered the north pole) and by the time that the story(s) are done he is dreaming of his own big adventures. He usually wakes up at around noon to 1 for lunch, then we play until 4 when we have to leave to pick up mama. Not that this is really important to anyone but us, but he is on an adventure right now, and I'm bored.
Sounds like yall have it figured out... Moire's scheduling herself already...I have no hand in the schedule's development. She wakes up about 4.30 for early morning snack, sleeps again until about 7.30 or 8 for her breakfast. She's usually awake until about 11 or 11.30 when we start to wind down for lunch and then a nap. She wakes up at about 3.30 if I'm sleeping too, earlier if I'm not. We eat again about 4.30. Pick daddy up at 5.30. She plays with daddy while I fix dinner. She eats about the time we do, so I eat later than her and daddy. She starts to get fussy after dinner (7.30 or 8). At 9.45, she takes another bottle and then settles down to sleep at 10....I don't know how she did it at such a young age, but yeah...
"those" days are the ones you just have to go with the flow hey!! Routine is a funny thing, without it my daughter gets all over the place and now I appreciate the time I get because I finally learnt one day (when she was a lot older than your little one by the way) that this made both her and me happy. Saying that however I can break it like we did tonight by going out to tea at a restaurant with friends and then riding home on the bike cause the train was going to be another half an hour and we could beat it and her loving every part of the "adventure". Today I was relief teaching a class of grade ones and the amazing thing to me was their sense of routine. They were all so aware of what they were meant to be working on and how they were meant to be going about it and it was just so goddamn cute to have these tincy little six years old telling me how things were meant to be unfolding for them. I love the lack of predicatability in life but mixing with kids I think is teaching me that they value it when they are small and finding thier way in the world. Although not everything was how I would have done it I really appreciated the security and confidence these kids felt in their classroom and I think you can draw a parallel with kids in the home.
I think hippyfreak you sound like someone who is willing to go with things and the schedule you describe sounds to me like something that totally suits a little one....you are working life around them and that is cool!
skylie made her own schedual and luckily it really works for all of us. at 18 months her day is as follows~ wake up anywhere from 5am to 6:30...it depends on how much noise the people upstairs make, diaper change, breakfast in front of sesame street or breakfast with bear (she only gets 1 hour of boob tube a day, and thankfully hardly pays attention~shes too busy playing with toys), breakfast in living room (after i eat with her, i run aroung and tidy up), then we play on the bed for a bit, shower and get dressed, play or read some books, and nap for about and hour. get up, run errands, have lunch, and do something like meet her friends or go to the pool, or park. sometimes she takes an afternoon nap,but she seems to be phasing it out.then snack, play some more, and i cook when daddy comes home. the rest of the day is mostly his....he bathes her, and reads her stories, then i send her off to dreamland with some milk and a few lullabyes..arond 7:30-8...i cant believe how easy our days have become. soon well have a new baby, and i'm afriad the chaos might be back!!
Don't worry rainbow! I thought the same thing when I was pregnant, but Julian has only made things better! So here is our day: Danny and my husband get up at 5, and Julian and I either sleep or nurse til my husband goes to work at 7, then we get up (well, I do). Danny usually eats with Daddy, so then we just hang out, and I have coffee. I usually do the dishes and some laundry, in between nursing, and at 9 or 10 we usually go for a walk to the park or to the library or to play with some friends. Lunch at noon (for Danny, Julian eats whenever he wants LOL), then quiet activities, like coloring reading, or puzzles, then nap sometime in the afternoon (usually around 2). He usually doesn't wake up til 5 or so, so while he's sleeping, i straighten up toys, get dinner around, etc. When my hubby comes home we eat dinner (around 6), and after dinner is Danny and Daddy time, NO MOMMY ALLOWED (thank goodness!!!!), Daddy does teeth brushing, haircombing, storytelling and bedtime around 8 or 8:30, and me and Julian usually just hang out and nurse. When Danny was little, my husband worked a funny schedule and Danny used to fall asleep for the night around 6, so my husband didn't get to spend very much time with Danny, so he started doing bedtime. Now Danny will hardly go to sleep unless Daddy does it. I think its great for them to have something that is ALL THEIRS the way that nursing was ALL OURS, plus, its one less thing for me to do! It might not work for every family, but it works great for us!
smiling mama~ i love daddy and skylie time too!! Even though i'm running around picking up before bed and doing dishes, i love to listen to mark chatting and joking with her. he can get her to giggle so hard~our silly daddy! PLUS my belly is starting to get in the way when i bend over into the tub to wash and play with her i know what you mean about your husband working a wierd schedual and how it effects the kids. when sky was a newborn, mark worked 12 hour nights~4 days on, 3 off~but still couldnt flip flop his sleep back and forth. So besides the fact he couldnt nurse her, she learned to turn to me for ALL the night time comfort. he worked those hours for a few months, but we still cant get her to turn to him for nighttime comfort~ during the day she'll take either off us. It upsets him because 1-he wants to give me a break from getting out of bed and 2-well for obvious reasons. i always reassure him its bc of the situation when she was a newborn, and he knows it, just wishes it wasnt the case. I know almost every mommy feels this way about thier husband, but mark is the best daddy! (our anniversary is on saturday...lovey sigh...)
hippyfreek-sounds like everything is going nice and calmly for you guys I really enjoyed reading these daily rituals! lol Leane would change hers ALL the time, lol...every time that she would start to do the same thing for a few days, I was like, "ok, so this is the new thing," and start to get used to it....but then everything would change again! lol I would get soooooo stressed out about it, and would feel horrible and depressed ( i think it had something to do with PPD), but one day I just woke up feeling better....like i had an epiphany (sp?) or something, and I was able to go with the flow much easier, and she was a much ahppier baby in turn. Now she's on an easy schedual, which she basically worked out for herself... Your kids all wake up so earily, leane wakes up anywhere from 8:30 am to 11am!!!! She DEFINATELY is my daughter, lol. So yeah, she wakes up, has a 10 oz bottle of formula and some food, then plays for a while. Then sometimes will have a nap...as she's been getting older, she's needed less naps and has been skipping some of them. then she wakes up and whatever time that is (anywhere between 1-2:30), she has her lunch and another bottle about an hour later (usually at about 3-4). Then she plays and crawls around for a while more and sometimes has another nap before supper. Cody is usually home by then, and plays with her for a while, while i cook supper. She generally always eats supper with us and most nights will have a bath after supper. then it's more play time, then another bottle (at about 9 pm), and she will usually cuddle with us until about 10 or so and conk out for the night....works for us
wow skye has a goodf routine going for him. Heres aiden's routine he wakes up at midnight for a midnight boob and comes to lay next to me in bed goes to sleep wakes up between 5am and 6 am for another boob i get up and dressed by six thirty for a morning run and workout and aiden just lays next to his sleeping daddy and rests (not sleepin) he cant sleep unless i am right next to him.By 8 am i come home shower and go lay down next to aiden and he falls back asleep until 9 am. We wake and i change his diaper sit him on his potty for a couple minutes then we get dressed. By 930 i make breakfast for him and he finishes by 10 am and his favorite show is on (it's a big big world) by 1030 i turn the tv off and we read and play. Around noon or 1 he gets a sleepy time booby and he wakes up around 2 then he has lunch and at 230 he finishes and he helps me cleanup by 3 or 4 his gramma comes home and he goes and plays with her for an half hour and around the same time his daddy is just starting to wake up. around 6 or so we get him dinner and after dinner is bath/shower time (he loves taking showers) After his shower we usually play for a little while more and by 8 or 830 pm we turn the tv off and read some nighty night books and after we read books he gets a night time booby so about 9 or 930 he is asleep.
