He's my peanut!
I have great news to share! Benjamin is legitimately a wonderful baby! He's on a schedule, he eats, he poops, he smiles, he laughs, he reaches, and best of all..... HE SLEEPS!!! Thank GOODNESS we are over our hump and nights have become very relaxed around here because we know that when he goes down he will stay down! (98% of the time, anyway!) I'm so proud of my little man!
One of my friends just posted a hilarious hour-by-hour account of a "day in the life" with her baby, which inspired me to describe ours! (Plus, I'm sure I'll love looking back on this in the future!) I'm not going to go into extreme detail, but it's nice to document his normal daily schedule!
Here we go!
Between 7:30 and 8:30 AM: Benjamin wakes us up! He starts squawking and when we go in to greet him good morning, he almost always has a big grin on his face! Sometimes he likes to hang out in the crib for awhile and examine his hands. They're always interesting, you know.
8:45: Joel leaves for school and Ben and start our day out by changing his diaper, singing songs, and eating a (small) bottle. He's not a big breakfast eater!
9:00: We catch the 3rd hour of the Today Show while I make some breakfast. I get a good pump in and Benjamin and I play!
Between 9:30-10: Ben gets cranky and it's nap time! (I love that I can just take him in, lay him down, turn on his mobile, pop in his pacifier, walk out, and know he'll fall fast asleep on his own.) While Ben naps, I hop in the shower and get dressed for the day!
Around 10:30 or so he's up and ready for more fun! We play... and watch KLG and Hoda in the background. He loves his swing and his play center! He'll eat a little more around 11:00.
11:30-12: I start making lunch for Joel while Benjamin sits in his swing in the kitchen and watches me. He usually always gets very weary and I end up putting him down for another nap. Joel is home by noon, we eat, and he gets to kiss Ben around 12:30 after he wakes up! Joel's out the door again by 12:45!
At 1:00 we're doing a variety of different things! Sometimes we go out and take a little trip to the store, and other days I try to catch up on housework or work on different projects. Ben always makes sure I give him LOTS of attention!
By 2:00 he's enjoying some more delicious milk! Not long after his snack he's getting ready for another short nap.
Between 2:30 and 5:00 we're doing more fun things... We read, sing, and play with his toys. Ben discovers something new every day! Then it's time for him to eat again!
I start dinner around 5:30 and Benjamin loves to watch me work! By this time Joel is (sometimes) home if there are no big tests looming, so he spends some quality time with the boy.
After we have dinner, we hang out until 7:30 - bath time! Ben loves his baths, and he especially loves to splash Mom with water! After his bath he has his nighttime bottle and somewhere between 8 and 9 goes down for the night! Hallelujah!
Benjamin is ready for another bottle around 12:30 or 1 in the morning, but he's usually so tired that he gulps it down and is back asleep in my arms in fifteen minutes or less. What a champ! I go skipping back to bed knowing I'll get a full night's rest until around 8am ! Yahoo!
So there's our (pretty standard) schedule! Gone are the days of multiple night feedings! I couldn't be happier! I'm so proud of my little guy! He's such a fun little person and we love him to pieces!
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