Henry and I are adjusting to our life while the girls are at school. It's a mixture of enjoying the time with Henry, missing the girls, and appreciating the vast amounts of time I have every day while Henry naps. Henry and I haven't done too much so far, but have another 165 days or so to take advantage of our time together before the girls are off for the summer!
Every day we drop off Paige at 8:45 at her school where she walks from the car to meet her class lineup. Then we drive home and drop off the car where we then walk in the opposite direction to Rose's school, taking Scout along for the trip. While pushing the stroller and walking Scout is a bit annoying, it gets everything done at once and leaves more time for mike to sleep in the morning, and more time for me to get up and get ready for the day before anyone else gets up (and have a coffee and read a chapter of my book). Scout enjoys the walk as we see lots of dogs and people. Rose can walk the entire 1.2 km, but she stands on the stroller stand for part of it to make sure we get to her school in time. We could drive there also, but the weather is too nice to bother driving, and getting in and out of the car is silly as we have to park super far from the school anyway. Plus, on the way home I have to get in and out of the car at both schools to pick the girls up at the door--which makes pick up at least an hour ordeal.
So the mornings are quite busy, and when you factor in gymnastics at 5 on Tuesdays, and Brownies at 5:30 on Wednesdays, there is a lot of activity. But really Henry and I don't have to do much during the day, so the middle section is pretty laid back. By the time we get to gymnastics pick up and Henry has been in and out of the car about 12 times, he gets pretty cranky though. Mike has been busy though, and next week we shouldn't have to do all of these trips alone.
Henry and I started Kindermusik this week which was pretty cute. I tried to do the free library program last week though, and it was a disaster. He spent the entire time fixated on playing with the blinds and wasn't interested at all in the class. I had to take him out of the room and just abandoned my stroller for the rest of the class, as I couldn't get it out without a huge ordeal. I wasn't surprised at all as he is the most active of the 3 kids. Kindermusik was more song and instrument based (obviously), which was fun for him. He hated the parachute part though and was sacred of it. Another funny thing as the girls loved the parachute in the classes I took them to as toddlers.
The other thing Henry and I have done is get caught up on overdue chores, and errands. Not too exciting, but at this age he's not too worried, and still only likes to sweep at home. I was hoping to sign up for the baby gymnastics program in the winter, but as I discovered, he will not sit still, and definitely will not follow a structure or stick with the class. I used to see little boys just like him, running off from the group as my little girls sat nicely in my lap. Now I TOTALLY get it.
As for nap time, I have tidied up a lot of stuff around the house, done a lot of dinner prep, baking, reading, drank too much coffee, watched a show or two, tons of laundry, and obviously caught up on this blog. Also, have began my next blog book--hopefully won't take an entire year to edit this one.
Also something else very exciting I have done...in the next post....
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