Although there are quite a few posts about Andrew, I thought it might be nice for you all to read about a typical day in Andrew’s life:
- Get up about 6.30am (well, yells out until one of us comes and gets him. He can get out of bed himself but always waits until we come in and say it’s ok for him to do so)
- Plays in the lounge room for a while and has breakfast: toast with either honey, cream-cheese or just butter; English muffin with butter; dry Fruity Weet-Bix with drink of milk; or Cheerios cereal with milk.
- Get dressed and brush teeth after breakfast.
- We go to daycare on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at about 8.15am. On non-daycare days we’ll usually let him watch ABC kids from about 8am until 10am when Play School finishes.
- Has morning tea at about 10.30, usually a yogurt and Tiny Teddies biscuits.
- Plays some more, sometimes outside if weather ok until around 11.30.
- Between 11.30 and midday usually has cream-cheese sandwich and fruit for lunch and then goes to bed for a rest until about 2 or 3pm.
- Gets up (more yelling) and has afternoon tea: rice crackers and cream-cheese or Sao biscuits or whatever we might have that he takes a fancy to that day
- Plays some more – I usually try and make time to sit with him and play while Nick has his afternoon sleep. That could be making a ramp out of blocks and an old bread-board and pushing the cars to each other or just sitting and reading to him. He loves books and even tries to read some of his favourites to me. We quite often have the radio or CD on in the afternoon too so we can sing and dance around like idiots. Andrew also loves it when we just play wrestle and have tickle fights.
- Dinner is usually around 6 or 6.30pm and then sometimes there is time for a little play after that.
- He has a shower at about 7pm which he now has by himself most nights or sometimes with Daniel or me.
- Straight after a shower he brushes his teeth then gets his jammies on and says goodnight.
- He gets into bed himself and decides which story he wants – at the moment it is ‘Feathers’ or ‘Goodnight Andrew’ – sometimes both.
- After we’ve read the story to him we turn out the light and sing a lullaby. He’ll usually ask for ‘Twinkle, Twinkle’ after that, which he usually gets and then we say ‘Goodnight Andrew’ and he says ‘Goodnight Daddy’ (or Mummy). We say ‘Love you Andrew’ and he says ‘Love you Daddy’ (or Mummy) but sometimes he says ‘Love you Andrew’ – very cute!
- He then sleeps through until about 6.30am.
Of course every day is different and we quite often go out, but you get the idea.
He’s a happy kid and loves his little brother to bits. He’s very affectionate and loves to give all of us kisses and cuddles. He loves anything Bob the Builder, Hi5, Wiggles, and Lightning McQueen from the movie ‘Cars’. He loves playing outside on his play equipment or throwing and kicking around balls.
Well, that’s all I can think of for now. Some of this is quite detailed and probably a bit boring or lovey-dovey but this will be a record for us and him in years to come so I wanted to put it in. Hope you like it.