A typical (week)day in the life of Claire

Now that I've been back to work for 3 weeks, Claire has definitely gotten a lot more used to the adjustment.  She's finally taking all of her bottles without fuss and has gotten into a little routine with Grammie.  Here's what a typical weekday is like in the life of Claire.


5:45am.  Claire wakes up.  Well sometimes she wakes up that early but most of the time, mommy has to wake her up.  She's always smiling in the morning though.

Mommy changes her diaper, feeds her, burps her, and then daddy gets her ready for Grammie and tucks her in her little car seat.  She talks the entire time.

6:15am.  Grammie picks Claire up.  She usually sleeps in the car but recently she's become quite the talker.  She loves yapping Grammie's ear off in the morning...at least until they get onto I-95.  Claire just can't resist the humming of moving at a nice steady pace....she always falls asleep then.


7:15am.  Claire wakes up for Grammie and eats a nice big bottle.  Then she hangs out and plays for a few hours.  Her favorite things are sitting in her bumbo seat, playing on her playmat, and swinging in her swing.  Grammie says the girl must have an internal timer because no matter how much fun she's having, she starts yelling and crying after 20 minutes...exactly...without fail.  Funny girl.


9-10am.  Claire has another bottle.


Noon.  Claire eats yet again and then usually takes her nice long nap at this time.  Somewhere between two and three hours long.


2-3pm.  Claire wakes up, has a fourth bottle and hangs out with Grammie (and usually Pop by this time of day) until Mommy or Daddy comes to pick her up.


6:05pm.  Mommy and/or Daddy pick Claire up.  Grammie and Pop walk her out together...too cute (sorry for the fuzzy pic...i was in too much of a rush to see my little girl to snap a good one).

6:30pm.  Claire, Mommy and Daddy come home...my favorite part of the day.  Claire eats and then hangs out and talks to us for a little while.

Love coming home to this face...

7:00pm.  Claire plays for a little while mommy and daddy have dinner.

As you can see from the pics above...she LOVES looking at herself in the mirror (the round purple thing hanging above her head).  So mommy had a great idea to move the mirror onto the floor to get her to tolerate tummy time a little longer...and it worked!  She actually smiles once in a while during tummy time now.  Here's the little ham checking herself out.

7:30pm.  Bath time.  Claire gets so excited when she goes up to her room at night.  She knows bath time and bed time are coming...her two favorite things.

8:00pm.  After she's had her bath and has her jammies on, she's ready for bed.  She eats again and is usually asleep within 15 minutes.  Once we put her down in her crib, she's usually out for the night.  Once in a while she'll lose her pacifier a few minutes after she goes down so will fuss until we help her find it.  But THEN she's out for the count.  


Until the morning, sweet dreams little girl.