Bathtime is FUN!!!
Posted by Chelsea on Sunday Mar 8, 2009 Under InfancyHi there! We’ve been getting calls asking if we’re okay since we haven’t posted in 2 weeks. We’re fine, just busy. Working puts a kink in my free time 😉
Shaun and I were talking about how scheduled our life is now. A typical day:
5 AM-Lucy wakes for a feeding and sometimes for the day. When we’re lucky she goes back down for an hour or so
6:30 AM-Wake up. Feed Lucy.
6:45 AM-Showers-I take one and then Shaun and Lucy hangs out in her bouncy seat in the bathroom to get a steam to help clear her sinuses (we’ve been battling colds since January)
7:15 AM-Dress Lucy
7:30 AM-Get everything ready for daycare, Shaun leaves for work at this point
7:45 AM-Leave for Daycare
8 AM-Drop Lucy off at Daycare
8:30 AM-Get on the Train
9-5:30 PM-Work where I have to pump 3 times. I’ve had some issues with supply and had to rent a hospital grade pump. Check this puppy out!
I’m happy to report that the supply issues have been solved by that fine piece of machinery, fenugreek supplements, oatmeal, and lots and lots of water!
Back to the schedule:
5:30 PM-Shaun picks up Lucy from Daycare
6 PM-Feed and then play with Lucy for an hour
6:30 PM-Feed Lucy her cereal
6:45 PM-start the heater in the bathroom and set up for bathtime
7 PM-Bathtime
7:15 PM-Storytime
7:25 PM-Feed Lucy
7:30-7:35 PM-Lucy is OUT.
After she’s out I have to make dinner, Shaun cleans up, then I make her bottles for the next day, and then we veg in front of the tv, and repeat 🙂
As you can see bathtime is an integral part of our schedule. It signals to Lucy that it’s time to go to bed soon and it washes the daycare germs off of her. Lucy has just discovered that bathtime is FUN. Before she just sort of hung out in the bath. I’d get smiles but it wasn’t anything special. Then she discovered splashing! Here’s the first night she started splashing:
She’s gotten even more enthusiastic about it now and gets mad when we take her out of the tub. Here she is tonight having fun:
That girl likes her bath! I can’t wait to get her started with swim lessons. She can start when she’s 6 months old-which is coming up on March 22nd!!! We went to Santa Cruz this weekend and happened to find a Lucy sized swim suit:
We also hung out at the beach:
It was a really nice day! It actually started off with Shaun letting me sleep in (what a guy!) and getting up with Lucy at 6:30. While they were hanging out she discovered Chunky Monkey in her crib. Chunky Monkey was a Christmas gift from Santa. It has sat in Lucy’s crib (the only thing since it’s a “safe” crib toy) since Christmas and she’s never noticed it. Now Lucy LOVES Chunky Monkey:
We finished off the weekend basking in the sun (kitty and all):
March 9th, 2009 at 12:59 am
Wow! I didn’t know you’ve been having supply problems – would LOVE to hear more about it when you have some time (we should definitely still grab that coffee sometime). I had major supply problems and never got over them – it was a HUGE devastation for me in the beginning. 🙁 So, I’m soooo glad to hear you got over that hurdle!!!
As for the pics, schedule and weekend – sounds about like ours. 😉 I love the video of her splashing; was it just me or were those duckies lighting up? Super cool!
March 9th, 2009 at 11:55 am
She’s so beautiful 🙂
March 9th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Pops said she’s going to be a swimmer like her Mommy. 🙂 I can’t believe she’s almost 6 months, can’t wait to see her and you. Much Love MiMi 🙂
March 9th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
How can she be getting prettier and prettier when she was so beautiful to begin with?? And standing up??? Six months old????
Thanks for the update, Marci
March 12th, 2009 at 10:24 am
She is such a cutie. Great pics. I love reading over people’s schedules. You know me, I am a regiment queen, it will be interestined to see how ours plays out soon.
March 12th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Hi there sweet baby girl….Just heard from your mommy all about the big poopy mess today….I think it is funny…You have gotten so big….Have a wonderful time learning how to swim….I think that is awesome…..You will be 6 months old on my oldest child’s 50th birthday….Seems like only yesterday that he was your size…..
September 26th, 2015 at 7:44 am
This post was hilarious and sad, the arwesns are great but it’s sad that my kids as teenagers and young adults would have to many accurate and unflattering arwesns – plus they all know my real age. I am pleased to say that my eighteen year old told me I have great skin for someone my age, I’m pretty sure it was a compliment.