Now that Caelan is getting older, I try to make an effort to take him out more to change things up and keep him from getting bored. But still, many weekend days are spent at home. For some reason the idea for a “day in the life” post struck me, so I wrote things down all day on Saturday to see what we were up to. I know, it’s unoriginal and I can’t say our day was very exciting. But it was a typical day for us. (Btw, when I think about what this day would have been like a year ago, before Caelan was born, it seems like we had gobs and gobs of free time and I can’t believe I ever complained about not having enough time for anything!)
6:45am
I hear Caelan on the monitor so I drag my butt out of bed. This is a little early for him to be waking up. I wash a bottle (because I was too lazy to wash bottles last night), make up the bottle and let it warm in the sink while I feed the ravenous cats. I check Facebook on my phone and listen to the monitor to see if Caelan is really up for the day.
7:15am
I go upstairs, get Caelan up and give him his bottle in his room. He throws up the entire thing seconds after finishing it (this happens sometimes when he has a cold). I strip him down and change his diaper and stick him back in his crib while I change my clothes. I come back in, clean the carpet and get a load of his laundry together. Then I get him dressed and suction his nose while he fights me. Finally we are ready to go downstairs. I drop him in the Pack N Play while I throw the laundry in the washer.
7:50am
I’m on call for work today so we don’t have any plans to go anywhere. I make a cup of coffee and watch Caelan play in the living room. I get up every couple of minutes to stop him from eating the rubber corners on the coffee table.
Mmm...corners
8:15am
Bill gets up and comes downstairs to hang out with us. He’s got his final exam for grad school due Sunday night so he is planning to work on that most of the weekend.
8:40am
I change my laundry around and fold a clean load in the living room with some “help” from Caelan.
"Helping" with the laundry
8:55am
It’s time for breakfast. Caelan and I both have Cheerios and he also gets some cereal/fruit puree and some peaches. Bill feeds the cats and I make up a grocery list while Caelan is finishing breakfast.
Peaches!
9:25am
After breakfast, we all go back into the living room for more play time. At some point, I change a diaper while Caelan chews on the pack of wipes. Bill plays with Caelan while I put away some laundry and get another load started.
10:15am
We finally get a video of Caelan walking!!
[I had planned to post the video here but it turns out I need a premium membership to embed videos. Boo. But it’s up on Shutterfly and Facebook so you probably already saw it anyway.]
10:25am
Bill gets to work on his school work.
10:30am
Caelan is getting fussy, so I take him up to his room and read a few books. He’s looking drowsy, so I take a big risk and leave him in the crib (awake) with the seahorse hoping he’ll fall asleep. This never works.
10:50am
It doesn’t work. Caelan is crying so I go back in and rock him. He repeatedly throws the seahorse and his paci across the room.
11:00am
Bill comes in and asks if I need a break. I say no but regret it almost immediately as I get punched in the neck for the millionth time.
11:15am
Bill comes back and we switch (he’s normally much better at getting Caelan down for a nap than I am). I go down and wash some bottles and after a few minutes I decide to make one up for Caelan since we are having no luck getting him down for a nap.
11:30am
Bill brings Caelan downstairs having come to the same conclusion about trying a bottle.
11:40am
Bill goes back to his school work and I take Caelan back up to his room for his bottle. He sucks it down and is asleep less than a minute later (sigh). I take him into my room and watch some Grey’s Anatomy on Netflix while he naps.
Napping with Mommy
1:10pm
Caelan is awake after a 1 hour 20 minute nap, which is pretty good for him. I change his diaper and we head downstairs. Bill hangs out with him while I make lunch.
1:35pm
Caelan and I eat lunch while Bill goes back to school work. I load and start the dishwasher while Caelan finishes up eating.
2:05pm
Caelan and I go back to playing in the living room.
Open the door. Close the door. Rinse, repeat.
2:45pm
Bill takes another break from work and hangs with Caelan while I change and fold laundry.
3:10pm
I change my clothes, get socks and shoes on Caelan and we go for a walk to the playground in our neighborhood.
Swinging at the playground
3:50pm
We’re home from our walk and I make a bottle while Bill watches Caelan. After the bottle, I burp Caelan while he walks around the coffee table and he goes back to playing.
4:20pm
Bill changes a poopy diaper (woohoo, I missed this one!) and we go back to playing.
5:00pm
After I fish a piece of rubber out of Caelan’s mouth, Bill suggests putting lemon juice on the rubber corners to try to deter Caelan from eating them. It doesn’t work. Caelan is getting fussy so Bill reads him a book.
5:30pm
I throw a few things in the diaper bag and we go out to Chili’s for dinner. Caelan is great at the restaurant and eats a ton of chicken (which is weird because we can’t get him to eat chicken at home).
Eating dinner at Chili's
6:30pm
When we get home, Bill feeds the cats and we all play in the living room for awhile longer.
7:30pm
I take Caelan up to his room and he plays in his crib while I put some of his clean clothes away. I get him ready for bed and he’s a little cranky. We’re a few minutes early for bedtime, so Bill reads him a book in his room. I bring Caelan into our room for his bottle and then Bill puts him to bed.
Reading with Daddy
8:10pm
Caelan is asleep for the night. Bill and I are exhausted despite not having done anything particularly strenuous all day. Bill finishes up some school work and I unload the dishwasher and wash some more bottles.
9:00pm
I had intended to type up this post and upload/edit some pictures tonight, but I’m too tired. Bill finds a movie on Netflix and we watch it in our room.
11:00pm
We check on the baby, laugh at how he likes to sleep with his butt up in the air, then we go to sleep.
Decorate This 
I *adore* those monster jammies!
It looks like he has a ton of fun in that swing. I’m guessing that within a few months, *you* will love the swing because it’s somewhere to put him for a few minutes where you won’t have to chase him!
The monster PJs are my favorites 🙂 And the crib and PNP work well for containing him for a little bit, so that is nice.
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