Week in the Life- Wednesday

 5:20am:  Our day actually started about 5:05am today.  Instead of getting Lily up immediately, we decided to try a different tactic to start the day.  We unswaddled her, turned on her light and left her in her crib to "play" and look at her tree hoping that this would keep her entertained for awhile while mom and dad snoozed a little bit longer.  No such luck!  This was the view when I entered her room to officially start our day.

Here is the sweet face who greeted me.  Her smiles are the best!

7:20am: It was a rather pleasant morning, so Lily and I decided to go for an early walk at the park.  We used to do this every day, but since the heat wave began, we have been cooped up inside with no park visits.  So this felt like a special treat.

ready for our walk...

seen along the path...it was a beautiful morning!

7:50: Looking kind of drowsy after a few laps around the park...

8:05am:  After one final lap...ready to go home and take a nap!

8:15am:  Made a quick stop at the Starbucks drive thru for a decaf coffee on the way home...Lily was dozing in the backseat...

 9am: Lily down for her morning nap.  I fixed myself some breakfast, enjoyed my coffee and tried to quietly pick up the kitchen.

9:20am: Catching up on some of the blogs I read.  I do not have regular time to do this, so I am always trying to cover a lot of beautiful blogs in a short period of time!

9:40am: Worked on making a little menu for us for the rest of the week as well as a grocery list..we needed to go to the store!

12:15pm:  We headed off to the grocery store with our list in hand around 11:15am.  I did not take my camera in with me because I knew it was going to be a fast and furious trip to get it all accomplished before Lily's naptime in less than an hour.  I had to seize the window!  However, there was one scene in the store where I wished I had my camera- picture Lily in her carseat, in the shopping cart and food stacked up all around her and she is just looking around taking it all in.  People did not even realize I had a baby in my cart until she started screaming and crying letting me know she was done with shopping!  Whew!  When this picture was taken Lily was down for her nap...just in the nick of time.

12:40pm:  I made my lunch- a PB and banana sandwich...and while I was eating this, Lily woke up from her nap.  This was not a good sign of things to come...

2:20pm:  After several attempts to help Lily to stay asleep, I know I'm doomed when I walked into her room and saw this scene!  In previous weeks, she has been sleeping on average 4+ hours every afternoon, and this week was averaging about 40 minutes in the afternoon!  Not good!  So I decided to just get her up and play with her in hopes that she would become sleepy again later.  This figuring out baby napping and helping Lily get the sleep she needs is tricky and I'm learning that nothing is predictable!!

2:30pm: Chilling in the kitchen while I try to have a conversation with our lender about pre-approval for a mortgage...she did not stay this quiet for too long...

3pm:  I was able to do a few loads of laundry in between Lily's crying and wanting to be held all the time.  

3:05pm: Poor little gal!  I could tell she was tired, but she just could not stay asleep after dozing off!  After this final attempt, I gave up on any hopes of a nap altogether.

3:15pm: another self portrait...Lily, all alert and ready to go!

3:20pm: Tummy time

This is the Baby Einstein CD of sing along songs...it is very upbeat and cheerful music.  Lily loves it and we listened to it non-stop for a couple of hours.  Sometimes it helped to overshadow her crying jags.... poor Lily!  She was really having a tough day today.  I could tell she was exhausted, but just unable to sleep.  

4:05pm: After walking around the house several times and looking in every mirror and singing along and dancing to the music, we decided to play in our gym.  She loves this dangly butterfly and is now an old pro at grabbing it and kicking her legs like crazy.  Just a week ago, she had never grabbed the butterfly!

5:10pm: Into the home stretch of the day.  It was gross outside today with the heat and humidity.  Aside from our walk in the early morning, we have not left the house.  

5:20pm:  Folding laundry with Lily's help.  While I was doing this, Lily had her longest stretch of the day without crying.  She put her little Sophie the Giraffe right there by her face and then grabbed her rattle and just carried on.  I think she likes folding laundry...it always to calm her down.

6:45pm:  Lily has been down for the night since 6pm.  Joe arrived home just as she was going to sleep.  We then made a Turkey Enchilada Pie for dinner.  It was delicious and I was exhausted.

8pm:  Wednesday evenings are my nights.  Joe watches Lily while she sleeps and I can go out and run errands, do nothing, meet with friends...whatever I want!  On this particular Wednesday evening, I met my lovely pal, Faith for some fro-yo at the Green Apple.  There is just something uplifting about a friend who listens and encourages and makes you laugh.  It was a great way to end an exhausting day.

My bowl full of deliciousness...  YUM!

The end. xo

The day in Numbers:

Number of diapers: 16

Number of things crossed of the to-do list: 5

Number of minutes at grocery store: 35   *felt like 60!

Episodes of Brothers and Sisters watched: 2.5

Number of hours spent feeding Lily: 4.0

Number of hours spent blogging: 0

Number of pages read in book: 0

Number of hours napped over entire day: 1.5

Number of hours slept in a row by Lily after being put down for the night: 7.25

Number of times Lily woke up during the night: 1

Number of photos taken: 117

Observations from the day:

It is really difficult to get anything accomplished when Lily is fussy and not wanting to nap!

It is challenging to find different ways to document our days when our days are primarily the same and take place in a small space

Lily had a rough day today...could tell the poor girl was tired, but just unable to sleep.  Seemed that nothing I tried helped her!

It felt really good to get out of the house after such a long day

I'm ready for summer to be over

Walking in the cool of the morning was a great way to begin the day- especially glad since it was such a rough day for us

Feels like there is so much to do this week and Lily is not napping well therefore making it near impossible to get anything extra done

Gratitude for the day:

Early morning walks at the park

The "coolness" of a summer morning

A belly laugh with a dear friend after a long day

rainbow sprinkles

My Shot of the Day: