Day in the life

Ever wonder how our days flow?  Well, I picked a random day and decided to take a picture of everything we do, within reason.

So here you go, a day in the life of a 2.5 year old!

We stared the morning by waking up.  Yeah, seems simple, but I figure it's a good place to start!  Usually daddy leaves for work around 7:30 and baby girl is up and ready now a days by 8am.  I, however, am not a morning person.  So we typically sit and snuggle for a bit in bed.  She chats in her little babbly way, I nod and mmhmm when appropriate.  It works.

This morning we had oatmeal.  And you know, that's the only picture I can't find in my folders!  But it was Quakers Blueberry and Cream Oatmeal. Trust me, good stuff!

 When we were eating breakfast I decided I Wanted some cold sweet tea.  So I made some hot black tea, then made it cold.  lol.  Simple, right?!  I made enough tea for 2 glasses.  One now, one later.

Also during breakfast we watched a little Sesame Street.  Seriously loving them lately.  And she's so interactive with them!  Brain Building!

 After breakfast, we got dressed and headed down to our neighborhoods playground!  Absolutely love it there.  And it's a 2 minute walk from our house.  You can't beat that.

 She climbed this tower all by herself.  She was super proud!

 And we played.  For long time!

She was so proud of herself for conqueroring this climbing wall!

After we finally had enough play time, we came back to the house.  Yes, of course it wasn't perfectly easy!  A kid on a playground who is over tired because I just realized what time it was?  Yeah, that was a meltdown!

But we had lunch and watched a new to us show called Classical Baby on HBO Go.  We've been watching it a bit here and there, and while it's not what we thought it was, she actually loves it right before naps and sleeping time.  It really chills her out.  

After lunch was another diaper change and then getting ready for nap!  She loves that salt lamp as much as I do.  It's the perfect night light.. except she's turned it off and on so much it now has a busted bulb we have to replace.  But honestly, small beans compared to how much it's part of her routine now!

After nap was a great snack of grapes!  Then we colored and worked on counting in our first and  second languages.  She's getting better at it than me!  

Then there was a demand for more snacks!  Except, nothing she asked for was ACTUALLY what she wanted.  I have zero clue what she actually wanted, but it wasn't anything you see pictured here.  And after the lonely piece of naan bread, I basically gave up and she stopped asking!  Win/win!

 Then we wrapped baby!

As you can see behind baby is my open laptop.  I was trying to get some blog posts edited and ready to be put up.  That did not happen.  Baby wrapping was much more important!

 Listened to Maimoa, a favorite!

 Danced to Te Vaka (an absolute favorite!)  And included a little bow at the end to complete the dance.

Then busted out to some Meghan Trainor.  This is a newer obsession, but my goodness she knows everyone word to almost every some she's heard from her!  

 After all that dancing, she got a little impatient for daddy to get home!  She decided to take her baby, her blanket, and a couch pillow and go lay down on the floor by the door daddy would come in.  This was obviously the only acceptable answer!


From here until supper was a lot of random play and throwing things.  After daddy gets home she likes to go a little buck wild and just blast through full steam ahead.  And daddy has great bonding time with her!  I took some pictures, but I think it's better not to put them up.

After a little daddy play time, we were off to supper.  We ended up going out this night, to a favorite Chinese restaurant with sushi.  Daddy gets his favorite, I get my favorite, and baby girl got the chicken on a stick and (her favorite) French fries!  She actually ate a whole stick chicken and part of my eggroll.  As well as, obviously, her fries.

After supper is calm down get ready for bed time.  I didn't take any pictures of this part because being present is important to help her calm down and settle into sleep.  We change into jammies, we brush and floss teeth, we sing a song, tell a story, and drift off to night nights.


And THAT my friends is a typical day in the life of a 2.5 year old kiddo!  And pretty much a day in my life as a stay at home papa!  So much movement, so much fun!