Oh, how I enjoyed getting back into the groove of our routine this week. I rather enjoy a schedule and I know kids typically thrive with consistency, so it was nice to get back to our non-holiday lifestyle. Speaking of schedules, I am looking forward to the day that Ashton is on some sort of a routine, specifically a napping one. Until recently, the only way he would nap was on me, and that was after being rocked asleep. All week I worked on getting him to take naps in his crib. We've had wavering success. Most days he slept 20-30 minute stretches in his crib, but one morning he slept a whole blissful hour and a half! I found myself a bit lost with what to do with the "free" time. I took a shower, did some projects with Spencer, played, etc. I'll continue to work on Ashton's napping because I simply cannot carry around a sleeping baby all day long anymore. My back is angry with me.
We started back up with our alphabet projects right where we left off before the holidays--the letter
G. You'd think since I had plenty of time to stew over possible projects and activities that I'd have a long list of ideas, but I found G difficult. My husband supplied me with some ideas--golf, gorilla, giraffe--so I ran with his ideas, sort of.
Our Gg flashcard was a lot of fun. We decorated the Gs with
glitter. Spencer loves shaking and probably would have continued to shake all the glitter out of the bottles if I would have let him. We used
green and
gold glitter to stay with the G theme, but my husband loved the coincidental Packers colors. Spencer was having so much fun with the glitter that I decided to bring out paint to use as "
glue" for some more glitter fun.
Our other G activity was to play
golf. I pulled out the plastic golf clubs and some balls and we putted into a overturned diaper box. This was a hit, so we continued to play golf all week long and even got Daddy to join us at night.
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| Gg alphabet photobook card. |
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| "No pictures, Mommy!" |
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| So happy to enjoy the very rare nice January day. |
Since the weather was so nice, we just had to take advantage and get outside! How often can you say you played outside in January without snowpants, boots, mittens, etc? I put the kids in the double stroller and we walked into town to play at the park. It was refreshing to get outside for a change.
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| Not as excited as big brother to be outside. |
Oh, how I enjoyed getting back into the groove of our routine this week. I rather enjoy a schedule and I know kids typically thrive with consistency, so it was nice to get back to our non-holiday lifestyle. Speaking of schedules, I am looking forward to the day that Ashton is on some sort of a routine, specifically a napping one. Until recently, the only way he would nap was on me, and that was after being rocked asleep. All week I worked on getting him to take naps in his crib. We've had wavering success. Most days he slept 20-30 minute stretches in his crib, but one morning he slept a whole blissful hour and a half! I found myself a bit lost with what to do with the "free" time. I took a shower, did some projects with Spencer, played, etc. I'll continue to work on Ashton's napping because I simply cannot carry around a sleeping baby all day long anymore. My back is angry with me.
We started back up with our alphabet projects right where we left off before the holidays--the letter G. You'd think since I had plenty of time to stew over possible projects and activities that I'd have a long list of ideas, but I found G difficult. My husband supplied me with some ideas--golf, gorilla, giraffe--so I ran with his ideas, sort of.
Our Gg flashcard was a lot of fun. We decorated the Gs with glitter. Spencer loves shaking and probably would have continued to shake all the glitter out of the bottles if I would have let him. We used green and gold glitter to stay with the G theme, but my husband loved the coincidental Packers colors. Spencer was having so much fun with the glitter that I decided to bring out paint to use as "glue" for some more glitter fun.
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